16 Facts About Farooq Qaiser

Farooq Qaiser was a Pakistani artist, newspaper columnist, TV show director, puppeteer, script writer, and voice actor.

Farooq Qaiser was known as the creator of the fictional puppet character Uncle Sargam, introduced in 1976 in children's television show Kaliyan.

Farooq Qaiser was born on 31 October 1945 in a Muslim family in Sialkot, Punjab.

Farooq Qaiser spent his early childhood in Peshawar and Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Farooq Qaiser received his master's degree in Mass Communication in 1999 from the University of Southern California, School for Communication and Journalism, United States.

Farooq Qaiser started his career in the early 1970s after graduating from the National College of Arts, Lahore, with a short documentary in the English language.

In 1976, Farooq Qaiser directed and wrote his own puppet show Kaliyan which was broadcast on the national television network, Pakistan Television.

Farooq Qaiser created his own fictional puppet characters for the show, including Uncle Sargam, Haiga and Maasi Museebte.

Farooq Qaiser created the character Uncle Sargam in resemblance of his teacher Molnar from Romania.

Farooq Qaiser worked at the Lahore-based Urdu daily newspaper Daily Nai Baat as a cartoonist.

Farooq Qaiser was a newspaper columnist at the same newspaper and wrote under the pen name Meethay Karelay.

Farooq Qaiser taught for sometime at the Fatima Jinnah Women University in Rawalpindi.

Farooq Qaiser served on the board of governors at the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage, in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2015.

Farooq Qaiser was a recipient of the Presidential Pride of Performance in 1993.

Farooq Qaiser served in India as a member of UNESCO, providing educational services for two years.

Farooq Qaiser died on 14 May 2021, in Islamabad from a heart attack.