Obaidullah Baig

Obaidullah Baig was a scholar, Urdu writer, novelist, media expert, and documentary filmmaker from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He was born on 1st October 1936 in Rampur, India. After Pakistan's independence in the early 1950s, he moved to Karachi with his family. Baig's most well-known work is the question-answer quiz TV series Kasauti (1967), which was supportive and intellectually stimulating. In the 1970s, he worked with Iftikhar Arif; in the 1990s, he partnered up with Ghazi Salahuddin. Even before the invention of the search engine, a major newspaper in Pakistan, referred to Baig as "Pakistan's Google personified."

Throughout his 48-year career, Baig produced over 300 documentaries in which he examined the history, flora, and fauna of Pakistan and Central Asia. His TV series Sailani Ke Saath, which aired on Pakistani television for over three years in the 1970s, his films Wildlife, Lakes of Sindh, Wildlife in Sindh, Game Warden, and Life in Stone, received high praise. For his services to the Pakistani media, the Pakistani President presented Obaidullah Baig with the Pride of Performance Award in 2009. He passed away on 22nd June 2012 in Karachi at the age of 75.