[2] Farooq was born on 10 January 1949 in Bhola, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan.
[2] Farooq joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1973 as a cadre of the foreign affairs branch.
[5] On 16 October 2012, Farooq was appointed chief information commissioner replacing Ambassador Muhammed Zamir.
[6] Farooq hosted Ronald Meinardus, regional director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, in February 2015 in Dhaka.
[7] He met with delegates from Management and Resource Development Initiative who had suggestions for improving the Right to Information Act.