[4] Upon matriculating from a local high school, Qureshi enrolled at Karachi University in 1956— he partly supported his studies by working as a motor mechanic.
[4] In his dormitory at the university, his schoolmate and friend was a future notable optical physicist Dr. Muhammad Jameel— who was also present when Pakistan tested its nuclear devices in Ras Koh Range.
[8][9] In 1967, Qureshi moved to the Nuclear Physics Group working under Naeem Ahmad Khan that was investigating on the feasibility of the gas centrifuges for the industrial enrichment.
[10] This study group also included Sultan Mahmood and Samar Mubarakmand but left the project when he joined the Radiation Isotope Application Division (RIAD) at the laboratory under Naeem Ahmad Khan.
: 179–180 [13] He soon joined the Metallurgical Laboratory (ML) located in Wah Cantonment and collaborated with Dr. Zaman Sheikh, a physical chemist and authority on explosives, of Defence Science & Technology Organization (DESTO).
: 194 [14] The subcritical experiments on the physical package was organized in the secret Kirana Hills Site, controlled by the Pakistan Air Force, under the test series: Kirana-I.