[8] Qaisar later worked a parliamentary researcher for Carol Monaghan MP, and as a case-worker for then-Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.

[2] In 2015, Qaisar unsuccessfully stood to be selected as the SNP candidate for Edinburgh Eastern at the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, finishing second to Ash Denham.

[9] Prior to entering the Commons, she was a Modern Studies teacher at Boroughmuir High School and George Watson's College in Edinburgh, the latter where pupils' parents pay fees of up to £13,551 a year.

[16] She ended on a serious note that in the current COVID-19 crisis the NHS had relied on migrant staff, criticising the UK's point-based immigration policy, which she said would even have excluded her own father (if it had been in place at the time) and deprived the country of an MP, a doctor and a medical student (herself and her siblings).

[16] In a question session with Dominic Cummings on 26 May 2021, she asked if her former Modern Studies students were more aware of COVID-19 border control benefits than the Government.

[17] Following racist abuse of Black English footballers, after the UEFA Euro 2020 Final,[18] during Business Questions to the Leader of the House, Qaisar shared some of the racist abuse she had endured on social media in asking for an urgent debate on 'real action' to end racism in this country, so that "MPs of colour" can speak.