Qureshi won Nigar Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Lal Aandhi (1979).
He won his third Nigar Award and second in best actor category for his role in Rustam Te Khan (1983).
[3] Qureshi was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, on 11 May 1938,[1] and received primary education in Hyderabad, combining both modern and religious studies, later on gaining a Master of Arts degree in Islamic history from Sindh University, being particularly influenced by the scholars Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi and Ali Muhammad Rashidi, while after his graduation he began his professional career as a host on Radio Pakistan's Sindhi programme Assan Jo Pakistan (Sindhi: اسان جو پاڪستان; "Our Pakistan"), in 1957.
[1] He met his wife Rubina Qureshi (d. 2022), a Sindhi folk singer,[5] while both were working for Radio Pakistan, as she was a prominent singer who "sang about 10,000 songs and the total recording time of her songs was more than 50 hours.
[7] Having been associated with the Pakistan Peoples' Party since he met Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, describing himself as an "ideological worker" and at one point even becoming head of PPP’s culture wing, over the decades, like many Bhutto loyalists, he eventually became disillusioned with how the party evolved,[8] and has since 2018 been associated with Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.