He co-directed and produced the Sundance-funded documentary These Birds Walk (2013) with Omar Mullick, and he was named in Filmmaker's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012.
In addition to filmmaking, his diverse projects include blogging and writing, co-founding a halal butcher shop, and being a TED fellow.
[5] While in college, Tariq took a class called “Creativity in American Culture” that inspired him to start making films, which at first were corporate videos.
He has also produced feature video stories for Time, a short film for The New Yorker, and co-directed a PSA to encourage vaccination against polio in Pakistan.
The film explores the struggles of street children in Karachi, Pakistan who are living the Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare program, and the sympathetic but reluctant ambulance driver who has to take them back to the homes they've run away from.
[12] The shop, Honest Chops, was initially started because of the founders' frustration with the lack of halal meat options in New York City.
The butcher shop sources organic, humanely-raised animals from the Tri-State area and attempts to make the product accessible and affordable.
[17] However, on September 28, 2022, Tariq stepped down as director due to further delays in the production schedule but remained on the project as an executive producer.