During her last days, she experienced extremely difficult circumstances due to poverty and lived in a two-room rented house at Chughalpura, Peshawar. In order to pursuit of better career opportunities in singing, she moved to Peshawar around ten years ago, and subsequently fractured a leg, leading to sold her jewellery for treatment. It is believed she choose "folk singing" over "playback" due to militancy that affected art and music in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in one of its administrative units Swat Valley.