Had two sons, Humayun and Afzal and a daughter, Maleeha.
In 1952, a landlord from Pakistan, had married seventeen-year-old Iqbal Bano with a promise that he would never ask her to quit her music interest, but would try to promote her. Her husband fulfilled his promise until his death in 1980.
Iqbal Bano is known in Pakistan mainly for her ghazal-singing and live concert performances on Pakistan TV channels.