Omar Kureishi - Career at Pakistan International Airlines

Career At Pakistan International Airlines

In 1959, Pakistan International Airlines’s then chief, Nur Khan, persuaded Mr Kureishi to join the national flag carrier and he was thereafter appointed head of PIA's new public relations department. Kureishi spent the next 25 years setting up and maintaining an infrastructure which provided a financial cushion for Pakistan's sportsmen. Kureishi's long innings with PIA lasted almost till 1981, except for a brief interlude when he had fallen out with the then managing-director. When the Zia regime took over, he was asked, for political reasons, to leave the organization.

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