 Asghar Khan was married to Amina Shamsie (Amina Asghar Khan) in 1946 and they had four children, Nasreen, Sheereen, Omar (deceased) and Ali Asghar Khan.Asghar Khan died on 5 January 2018, two weeks shy of his 97th birthday.The government of Pakistan buried him with full state honours and he was given a state funeral.