Colonel Muhammad Khan was born in Chakwal, in the village of Balkasar, in 1919. He studied in Islamia College Civil lines and when World War II broke out, he joined the British Indian Army.He served in Iraq,Egypt and Palestine. In the Libyan desert, he valourously fought against the Germans.

He rose to fame when he surprised the literary circles through his book Bajng amad. It was an autobiographical account of his life as a soldier in WW2. In 1974, he went on a tour of the UK. He published his account of the UK tour in Basalmat ravi. Later he published a book, Bazam arayan, a collection of semi autobiographical short stories.