Background
Qaiser was born on October 31 to a Muslim family in Lahore, Punjab.
journalist puppeteer graphic designer
Qaiser was born on October 31 to a Muslim family in Lahore, Punjab.
He is graduated with Fine Arts in 1970 from the National College of Arts (NCA).
He is also author of some books Qaiser is well known for his fictional puppet Uncle Sargam introduced in 1976 in children"s television show Kaliyan. Farooq is also a cartoonist, columnist and writing for the newspaper Daily Nai Baat in Lahore and famous for his column writing name (English: Sweet gourd).
Later he mastered in Graphic Arts from Bucharest, Romania in 1976 and trained for puppetry there.
He did master in Mass Communication in 1999 from the University of Southern California, United States. Qaiser started his career in early 1970s after graduating from the NCA with a short English documentary.
In that show he worked along with the help of Shoaib Hashmi and Faiz Ahmad Faiz on the scripts and puppets. In 1976 Qaiser directed and wrote his own puppet show Kaliyan which earned a high ranking in Pakistan that time.
He also gave the voice of Uncle Sargam in that show.
He is also working at Urdu language Lahore based daily newspaper Daily Nai Baat, he is a cartoonist and makes cartoons daily for the newspaper. He is also a columnist of Nai Baat and known for his column writing name. He taught for sometime at the Fatima Jinnah Women University in Rawalpindi.
He also wrote some books include,, and
Below is the list of characters and puppeteers created by Farooq Qaiser. Haiga (1976) Masi Museebatay (since 1976) Sharmeeli (1976) Uncle Sargam (since 1976) Rola.
