From Kabul deputy to Wazir
Munim Khan's career was built first under Alamgir in the Deccan and then remade when a prince took him up. He was "born about 1062 H. (1651-2) was the son of Sultan Beg, of the Badakhshi tribe of Birlas" (vol. I, p. 125), and after Deccan service and a spell in disgrace his fortunes turned when "the Emperor's eldest son Muhammad Muazzam (afterwards Bahadur Shah) now became his patron" (vol. I, p. 125), taking him from the Dakhin to Kabul and then on as the Prince's deputy in the Lahore subah.
When Muazzam succeeded as Bahadur Shah in 1707, the office followed the promise made on campaign: "The office of Wazir had been already promised at Lahor to Munim Khan" (vol. I, p. 37). The ministry list drawn up soon after confirms it: "Munim Khan Khan Khanan was Wazir or Prime Minister" (vol. I, p. 40), ranked below Asad Khan's ceremonial Wakil-i-mutlaq but above the working household.
Death on the march to Lahore
Munim Khan held the wazirate until Bahadur Shah's slow winter march toward Lahore. At Bhadoli in February 1711 "it was reported that Munim Khan, the chief minister, was suffering from some affection in the face, of the nature of gangrene, which had attacked his eye and ear" (vol. I, p. 124). A halt of thirteen days followed, and then "Munim Khan expired (28 Feb. 1711). His age was a few months over sixty years" (vol. I, p. 124).
His body was sent to Delhi for burial near the Qutb, and the page records the Emperor's grief and his gift to the family of the deceased's estate, valued at "three krors of Rupees (about 3 millions of pounds sterling)" (vol. I, pp. 124-125). A footnote hedges the exact spot of death rather than asserting it in the main narrative, naming it "Buriyah [in the Duab between the Satlaj and the Bias]" on the authority of Mirza Muhammad (vol. I, p. 124).