He was a member of the Union of Soviet Architects of the USSR since 1937. This was before he had to flee to Germany in 1943 due to political unrest in Stavropol, where he was working. Murat-Khan ended up in a camp for displaced persons at Mittenwald, Germany operated by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. It is here that he met and married Hamida Akmut, a Turkish citizen of Pakistani and Austrian descent. The German Reich in Berlin issued him a foreigner’s pass. Since he was a refugee, this gave him an identity and freedom to move around.
As his wife Hamida Akmut’s father was an influential Pakistani, Dr Abdul Hafiz, Murat-Khan and his wife chose to move to Lahore with their two daughters. In the summer of 1950, they took the Caledonia ship to Karachi and reached Lahore by train in 1950.
(Source: The Citizens Archive of Pakistan)