Haider completed his graduation from Government College University, Lahore, which is one of the oldest seats of learning in the Muslim world.

Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan belongs to a well known Kashmiri-speaking political family in AJ&K.

His uncle Raja Muhammad Latif Khan was elected as a Member of AJ&K Legislative Assembly in 1970.

Raja Farooq Haider Khan started his early political career with Muslim Conference where his father served as a President for two tenures.

In 2006, he was again elected as a Member of AJ&K Legislative Assembly and held the portfolio of Chairman Public Accounts Committee.

Following the 2016 Azad Kashmiri general election in which PML-N gained a majority bagging 31 seats in the 49 seat Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly and he was also elected as a member of AJ&K Legislative Assembly, Haider was nominated as the Prime Minister of AJK for the second time.

[6] On 5 October 2020, he was booked in treason case along with key leaders of Pakistan Muslim League (N) including Maryam Nawaz.

[7][8][9][10] On 30 September 2018, Haider's helicopter came under fire from the Indian Army when he was travelling to Forward Kahuta (his village near the Line of Control) He barely escaped the attack near Abbaspur village while travelling with two AJK ministers and his personal staff officer in the civilian helicopter.