Family Background and Education
Kureishi's father, Col M.A. Kureishi, was a member of the Indian Medical Service. He had 11 siblings and his family was frequently on the move because of their father's many postings across prepartition India. Mr Kureishi took a degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California in the early 1950s. Mr. Kureishi has one son named Javed Qureshi, he also has two grandchildren Saif and Tanya Kureishi. Omar was a classmate of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in school in Mumbai and later at university in the US.
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