Sajad Haider spent most of his early life within a tin-roofed home, two of which were gifted to his father by Nawab Mehran Khan Bugti in a complex of eight houses that he’d built. He grew up with Akbar Bugti and his siblings, and remembered Akbar as a "stunning and fearsome person" who always called him chapeit or scrawny boy. He lived around people from various cultures and religions, and recalled life in that multicultural setting as “wonderful and uncomplicated”.