 Fluent in Urdu, Hindi, Brahui, Sindhi, Punjabi, Dari, Persian, Seraiki, Balochi and Hindko.In 2001 he worked for CNN as a freelance producer, cameraman, and translator.In 2008, Sheikh produced "Kandhar Break", a political thriller set in 1999 which tells the story of an Englishman who must escape the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.