Abdullah started his career in 6 Frontier Force (FF) Regiment after he graduated the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) course in 1948.
He was born in Abottabad in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. He was the son of Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement Emir Dr. Saeed Ahmad Khan and died in 1988 of Colon Cancer. Zia-ul-Haq personally went and offered condolences to his family in Lahore.
