Career
He served the Lok Virsa for twenty years as a Director Research. He was the acting Executive Director of Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) when he died. Nayyar was born in 1948 in Bahawalpur.
He studied Cultural anthropology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
He was also the faculty of the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. Nayyar died on July 29, 2008 in Islamabad due to suffering from cancer of lymph nodes.