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Qureshi (surname)
Qureshi is a widely distributed surname in the Islam, Muslim world. Following is a list of notable people and fictional characters with the surname ''Qureshi''. *Abdul Najeeb Qureshi (born 1988), Indian sprinter from Hyderabad *Abdullah Qureshi (activist) (born 1935), Pakistani activist *Abdul Subhan Qureshi, or Abdus Subhan (born 1972), fugitive from India wanted on terrorism charges *Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1976–2022), leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant *Ahsaan Qureshi, Indian stand-up comedian *Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (born 1980), Pakistani professional tennis player *Akhlaq Qureshi (born 1962), Italian Pakistani cricketer *Amir Qureshi (born 1974), Pakistani football player *Amjad Qureshi (born 1895), Pakistani cricket umpire *Asad Qureshi, British Pakistani filmmaker *Ayessha Quraishi (born 1970), Pakistani artist *Aziz Qureshi (born 1940), 15th Governor of Mizoram, India *Bashir Ahmed Qureshi (born 1959), Sindhi nationalist from Pakistan *Dulari Qures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qureshi
Qureshi (also known as Qureyshi, Quraishi, Qurayshi, Qureshy, Quraishy, Qoraishi, Qoreshi, Koraishi, Kureshi, Kureshy, Kureishi, Coreish) is a Muslim family name. In English it has many spellings, in Arabic is spelled "", which means part of the Quraish Family ( ar, قريش). The title is associated with the family of Muhammad. It is a common surname in South Asia and parts of Western Asia, particularly the Arabian peninsula. Most bearers of the name, by far, are in Pakistan (82%: 1,210,000, out of 1,470,000 worldwide), where it is the ninth most common surname. India has the second most (11%: 162,000), followed by Saudi Arabia (2.5%: 36,300), England (0.65%: 9,580) and Iran. Data as of 2014. Frequency counts rounded to three significant digits; percentages to two significant digits. See the Talk page. History The Quraish at first opposed Muhammad's teachings and is said to have persecuted him and his followers, but by the time of his death they had begun to convert to the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faisal Qureshi (television Personality)
Faisal Qureshi is a Pakistani television personality, actor, director, writer, drama producer and humorist. He is known for directing or writing comedy dramas, sitcoms, commercials and music videos. Life and career Faisal Qureshi was born in Hyderabad, Sindh. His father was principal of Government City College, Hyderabad. Faisal attended early schooling in Lahore and graduated in graphic designing from National College of Arts. He started his career as a play writer with his brother Imran Qureshi. Faisal wrote and acted in various plays and then became VJ by hosting a show ''Video Junction'' which was previously hosted by Hadiqa Kiani in 1995. He gained popularity by producing the sitcom '' Teen Bata Teen'' which was aired on PTV Home in 1995. Faisal then directed many comedy-dramas and sitcoms including ''Ulta Seedha'' and ''Uski Suno Awaz'' which were aired on GEO Entertainment. He has also directed television commercials and music videos. Films *'' Teri Meri Love Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi ( ur, ) (20 November 1903 – 22 January 1981) popularly known as I.H. Qureshi, ''SP'', ''HI'', was a Pakistani conservative nationalist historian and playwright. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi from 1961 till 1971. An early activist of the historic Pakistan Movement, Qureshi served in the ministries of education and frontier regions as the secretary; in addition, he was elected a member of the parliament of Pakistan. But, due to his association with academia, he resigned from his government appointments and joined the academic faculty at the Columbia University as a professor of South Asian history. But soon, he returned to Pakistan and founded the National Language Authority (NLA) in the 1970s and helped set up the History Department at the University of the Punjab. Later, Qureshi joined the faculty of history at the University of Karachi where he remained the remainder of his life. Qureshi is also credited for editing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Hussain Qureshi
Iqbal Hussain Qureshi (Urdu:اقبال حسين قریشی) 27 September 1937 – 8 December 2012) , best known as I.H. Qureshi, was a Pakistani nuclear chemist and an Emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi. Qureshi was the principal contributor of scientific understanding of various chemical elements: bismuth, cobalt, strontium, thallium, tritium, iron, rubidium, and zinc. His career was mostly spent with the Government of Pakistan after leaving his research work at the national laboratories, and advising the government on nuclear policy issues. He pushed his influential role at the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) and the peaceful applications of nuclear science. He spent many years as an educator and research scientist at the Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Nilore before taking a professorship at the Karachi University. Biography Iqbal Hussain Qureshi was born on 27 September 1937 in Ajmer, Rajasthan in India where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huma Qureshi (journalist)
Huma Qureshi is a British author and former ''Guardian'' and ''Observer'' journalist. Career Qureshi's coming-of-age memoir How We Met: A Memoir Of Love and Other Misadventures was published to favourable reviews in 2021, by Elliott & Thompson. Qureshi's short story collection Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love was also published to critical acclaim in 2021, by Sceptre after a four-way auction. It was chosen as ''The Guardians Book of The Day, described by ''The Sunday Times'' as "An impressive debut" and the i newspaper as "a luscious debut". Qureshi's first book, In Spite of Oceans, received The John C Laurence Award. In 2020, Huma won the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize. Early life and education Qureshi was born in the UK to Pakistani parents and brought up in the West Midlands. She attended King Edward VI High School For Girls, Edgbaston, Birmingham and graduated with a BA in English Literature and French from The University of Warwick, followed by an MA from Sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huma Qureshi
Huma Saleem Qureshi (; born 28 July 1986) is an Indian actress, model and producer who primarily appears in Hindi language films. She has also received three Filmfare Award nominations. Qureshi obtained a bachelor's degree in History—with honours—from the University of Delhi, while she worked as a theatre actor and model. After working in several theatrical productions, she moved to Mumbai and signed a two-year contract with Hindustan Unilever to appear in television commercials. During the shoot for a Samsung mobile commercial, Anurag Kashyap noticed her acting ability and signed her for a three-film deal with his company. Qureshi made her film debut with a supporting role in the two-part 2012 crime drama '' Gangs of Wasseypur''. Her performance in the film earned her several nominations, including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut and the Best Supporting Actress. That same year, she played the lead female role in the romance ''Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashim Qureshi
Hashim Qureshi (born October 1, 1953 in Lal Bazar, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir) is a pro-Kashmiri leader and one of the founding members of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and is now the Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Democratic Liberation Party (JKDLP), one of the main Kashmiri political organisations which strives to find a political solution to merge Kashmir with Pakistan through peaceful political activities. Ganga hijacking Maqbool Bhat was the founding father of Kashmir's separatist movement and he wanted to highlight the Kashmir issue internationally. He masterminded the idea of a hijacking. He chose Hashim Qureshi for the hijacking, who along with his cousin Ashraf Qureshi hijacked an Indian Airlines plane on 30 January 1971 (Ganga) en route from Srinagar to Jammu and brought the plane to Lahore, Pakistan. Hashim Qureshi was 17 years old. The Indian Airlines flight was carrying 30 people including crew members. After landing at Lahore Airport, the hijackers deman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haider Qureshi
Haider Qureshi ( ur, ),Qureshi Ghulam Haider Arshad ( ur, ) born on 1 September 1953 in Rabwah, Punjab, He is a Pakistani Urdu poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, editor and journalist. He writes in Urdu. Personal life Haider Qureshi was born in Rabwah, Chiniot District, Punjab, Pakistan He belongs to a Siraiki-speaking family. His father Qureshi Ghulam Sarwar was from Khanpur, Rahim Yar Khan. Haider Qureshi began writing verses in the age of 18. After passing his secondary level in 1968, he started working at a sugar mill, in the same year he wrote his first romantic story. He wrote his first ghazal in 1971 soon after his marriage. Later he obtained his Master of Arts (M.A.) in Urdu literature in 1974. Haider Qureshi moved to Germany in 1994, and is living there uptil. He is now a German Nationality holder having Pakistani background. Literary career Qureshi was an active member of literary circles in Khanpur. His six publications are related to anthologies of g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habibullah Qurayshi
Ḥabībullāh Qurayshī ( bn, হাবিবুল্লাহ কুরাইশি; 1865 – 1943) was a Bengali Islamic scholar and educationist of the Deobandi movement. He was the founding director-general of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam. Early life and family Habibullah Qurayshi was born in 1865, to the Bengali Muslim Mianji family in Qazipara, Chariya village, Hathazari, Chittagong District. His father, Matiullah Mianji Qurayshi, was an alim. The family traced their ancestry to Marwan ibn al-Hakam, the fourth Umayyad caliph and a member of the Arab tribe of Quraysh. He lost his mother at the age of five, and was the only child of his parents. Education Qurayshi first studied the Quran with Imamuddin Mianji and other books with Masiullah. He then enrolled at the Mohsinia Madrasa, which was the only higher Islamic educational institute in Chittagong at the time. After completing Jamat-e-Duam, he proceeded to study at the Darul Uloom Deoband in North I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golam Samdani Koraishi
Golam Samdani Quraishy ( bn, গোলাম সামদানী কোরায়শী; 5 April 1929 – 11 October 1991) was a Bangladeshi poet and writer. He was given Independence Day Award posthumously in 2017 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and family Golam Samdani Quraishy was born on 5 April 1929 at his mother Altafunnesa's home in the village of Kaurat (presently in Kendua Upazila) in Netrokona, Mymensingh District, Bengal Presidency. His ancestral home was in the village of Bir Ahammadpur in Gouripur. His father, Moulvi Babu Shaykh Abu Asl Muhammad Abdul Karim Qurayshi claimed descent from the Quraysh, an Arab tribe which the Islamic prophet Muhammad and many of his companions belong to. Education Quraishy's education began at home. He later studied at the Ghaturkona Primary School and Kathalia Middle English School, completing his primary education from 1935 to 1936. From 1937 to 1941, he was educated at the Chandranath High School and Bir Aham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Democratic Party (Bangladesh)
The Progressive Democratic Party ( bn, প্রগতিশীল গণতান্ত্রিক দল) is a newly established democratic party in Bangladesh. It is popularly known as the PDP. This party was launched on 21 June 2007 though a press conference, as soon as limited indoor political activity was allowed, although open politics was prohibited at that time as the country was still under a state of emergency. The founder and president of the party, Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi, died at the end of August 2020. The Bangladesh Election Commission The Bangladesh Election Commission ( bn, বাংলাদেশ নির্বাচন কমিশন), abbreviated and publicly referred to as EC, is an independent constitutional body that operates the legal functions of election laws in ... cancelled the party's registration in November of that year for not having a functioning central committee or sufficient offices at district and lower levels to maintain registration. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi
Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi ( bn, ফেরদৌস আহমদ কোরেশি; 1941-2020) was a Bangladeshi politician and chairman of the Progressive Democratic Party. Early life Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi was born in 1941 to a Bengali Muslim family in Chittagong, Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh). His family claimed descent from the Quraysh, an Arab tribe which the Islamic prophet Muhammad and many of his companions belong to. Career Qureshi served as president of the student political organization East Pakistan Chhatra League from 1967 to 1968. During the Bangladesh Liberation War he edited the ''Daily Deshbangla'' newspaper. After the war, he led a faction of the Jatiya Janata Party. The party merged with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
