Farooq Qaiser (Urdu: فاروق قیصر‎) (born October 31 Lahore) is a Pakistani artist, columnist, director, puppeteer, script writer and voice actor. He is also author of some books. Qaiser is well known for his fictional puppet Uncle Sargam introduced in 1976 in children's television show Kaliyan. Farooq is also a cartoonist, columnist and writing for the newspaper Daily Nai Baat in Lahore and famous for his column writing name Meethay Karelay (English: Sweet gourd).