Background
Sajjad Kishwar was born on July 6 in Ludhiana, Punjab, British India.
Sajjad Kishwar was born on July 6 in Ludhiana, Punjab, British India.
Growing up in Ludhiana, Sajjad Kishwar attended an English medium school.
He is also a poet. Besides acting, he has been assigned by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts to edit and approve the scripts of all stage programmes. In 1947, his entire family moved to Pakistan and settled in Rawalpindi. After matriculation from Rawalpindi, he did graduation from Gujranwala.
In his early career, he joined the Pakistan Times as a circulation manager.
However, he soon switched lanes from the newspaper business to acting. His first role was that of a villain in the play "Raizgari", aired from PTV’s Rawalpindi centre in 1967.
When PTV Rawalpindi stopped airing serials and became a current affairs station, he moved to Lahore. Sajjad Kishwar has performed in about 1,500 television dramas and more than 100 films.
Muhammad Sultan Sabr Wani.