[1][2][3] He had started composing music for Pakistan Television Corporation back in 1972.
EMI provided the platform for Pakistan's biggest music artists during the 1970s and later decades.
[3] Pakistan Television Corporation, all through most of his active career, used to ask him to produce and compose music for it.
During that long period, he worked with many prominent Pakistani singers like Nayyara Noor, Tina Sani, Tahira Syed, Noor Jehan, Mehdi Hassan, Reshma, Mehnaz Begum, A. Nayyar and Alamgir.
[3] He had acting roles in Pakistani TV drama serials such as Aangan Terha and Dhoop Kinare, Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) (2003) and the music composition of ghazals from the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz.