[5] He adapted Manto's Naya Qanoon and Toba Tek Singh for Pakistan Television.
He wrote the play Mor Mahal in 2016 for television[4] and the same year produced the script of the film Mah e Mir, Pakistan nomination in the foreign language Academy Awards in the United States.
[7] Sarmad Sehbai appeared on the Pakistani literary scene as a poet and made his theatre debut in the early 1970s.
[5] His poetry collection includes Neeli Kay Su Rung, Un Kahi Baton Ki Thakan, Mulaqat, Raja ka Beya.
[5][8] In late 2024 Sarmad Sehbai released his first English-language novel, The Blessed Curse, a fiction which serves as a satire on the contemporary conditions of Pakistan, and it received critical acclaim from writers such as Mohammed Hanif and Mohsin Hamid.