It is believed that Abdul Latif helped King Abdur Rahman Khan during the negotiation of the Durand Line Agreement with the British India in 1893.

He had thousands of pupils all over Afghanistan and students came to him from far regions of Central Asia[4][failed verification] He was a learned man, fluent in Persian, Pashto, and Arabic.

He had great influence on the Afghan kings and its darbar; as claimed by Zahoor Ahmad, he had the honour to place the Amir's crown on the head of Habibullah Khan himself on the eve of his coronation in 1901.

In 1889 Abdul Latif heard about Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, British India, who claimed to be the Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi.

[citation needed] Instead of going for Hajj as he told the king he would do, Abdul Latif decided to visit British India to meet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

[6][failed verification] When the news spread that Abdul Latif was a follower of the new Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, Habibullah Khan, on the order of religious clerics, charged him with apostasy; at the time, this carried the death penalty in Afghanistan.