Sajjad Kishwar is a noted Pakistan

Pakistan

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i film and television actor.
Sajjad has exceptional speaking power with a rich vocabulary. Apart from being a very good artist, he is quite an impressive poet as well. His Urdu makes a deep and favourable impression on one’s mind. Besides acting, he has been assigned by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts

Pakistan National Council of the Arts

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 to edit and approve the scripts of all stage programmes.

Sajjad Kishwar was born on July 6 in Ludhiana, Punjab

Punjab (India)

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, 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

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...

.

After matriculation from Rawalpindi, he did graduate from Gujranwala

Gujranwala

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. In his start of career, he joined the Pakistan Times

Pakistan Times

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 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

Pakistan Television Corporation

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’s Rawalpindi centre in 1967.

In 1962, Sajjad married to "Amna Nazli", they had three children (two daughters "Tahida" and "Hafza" and a son "Masood Abbas".

When PTV Rawalpindi stopped airing serials and became a current affairs station, he had to move to Lahore

Lahore

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. Sajjad Kishwar has performed in about 1,500 TV dramas and more than 100 films.

In 2006, Sajjad Kishwar received "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Radio Pakistan.

Filmography

His noted television plays and films are:

Television plays

• Akhri Shab
• Waris

Films

• Aaina
• Meharbani
• Zindagi
• Khuda Kay Liya