Sajjad Kishwar

Sajjad Kishwar (Urdu: سجاد کشور‎) is a Pakistani film and television actor with good speaking power. 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.

Sajjad Kishwar was born on July 6 in Ludhiana, Punjab, British India. Growing up in Ludhiana, Sajjad Kishwar attended an English medium school. 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.

In 1962, Sajjad married and they had three children (two daughters and a son).

When PTV Rawalpindi stopped airing serials and became a current affairs station, he moved to Lahore. Sajjad Kishwar has performed in about 1,500 TV dramas and more than 100 films.