[2][3] Natiq studied up to matric at his village high school and passed FA exam from Government College, Okara.
After that, due to poor economic conditions, he started working and got his BA and MA degrees privately from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.
His first collection of poetry "Beyaqeen Bastiyon Mein" appeared in 2010, followed by a book of short stories "Qaim Deen" published by Oxford University Press in 2012.
Penguin Random House India published the English version of the aforementioned collection of the short stories titled "What Will You Give For This Beauty?".
[5] His story "Mason's Hand" has been featured in international literary magazine Granta in its special issue on Pakistan in 2011.