Javed Kureishi (born 25 August 1961) is a former

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er and the first captain of the Pakistan U19 cricket team. He played a handful of youth Test and

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matches for

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between 1977 and 1979. Javed Kureishi is now a banker for Citibank. He has a wife and two children, Tanya Kureishi, and Saif Kureishi. Javed went to Sussex University and was a big part of the cricket team there.

Family

Born to father

Omar Kureishi Omar Kureishi (1928 – 14 March 2005) was a Pakistani writer. He had also worked in the advertising, aviation and journalism industry, writing for '' Dawn'', ''The Pakistan Times'', ''Morning News'' and ''The Guardian'', London. He is best known ...

and mother Zohra Karim, Javed Kureishi comes from a line of renowned individuals in Pakistani society. Omar Kureishi had Javed at the age of 33 during his first marriage with Javed's respective mother, Zohra Karim. Omar was a fiercely passionate man, exercising his wit and intelligence through literary mediums such as books, newspaper articles and oratory broadcasts. Described to have written many well-read books about the social and political ramifications that the Pakistan-India separation and conflicts had thrust upon his society with controlled “exasperation and anger”, he spent much of his writing career both uncovering and revealing the truth to the public regardless of the consequences. Omar also spent time in aviation and advertising. As chief of

, Omar made long-lasting positive changes to PIA's infrastructure and public relations.

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