[1][2][3] Quraishi worked as a journalist and presenter on radio and television in Afghanistan for ten years and has a degree in journalism.
Quraishi is Clover Films chief investigator for projects in Asia and the Arab states.
[4][5][6] His professional career began in Afghanistan, where he worked as producer, reporter and presenter for a weekly television social program Shahr-e ma, Khana-e ma (Our City, Our Home) for ten years before moving to the United Kingdom and joining the Clover Films in 2002.
After successfully collaborating on the film Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death, in the same year he won The Rory Peck Impact and Sony International Award for a film about the SAS in Afghanistan.
His most recent works include The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, a series of films for WNET/Wide Angle (women in war and peace); Behind Taliban Lines, Fighting for Osama, Opium Brides (aired January 3, 2012 from PBS Frontline), and Taliban Country (aired January 21, 2020 on PBS Frontline).