Yousuf Bashir Qureshi

Yousuf Bashir Qureshi (born 2 March 1971), commonly known as YBQ, is a Pakistani fashion designer, artist, actor, musician, poet and farmer. His atelier and art and design studios are housed in former warehouses known as the Commune Artist Colony, located in Karachi's Railway Quarters.

Early life Yousuf Bashir Qureshi was born on 2 March 1971 in Karachi. As a child, he attended Pakistan Steel Cadet College, a boarding school on the outskirts of Karachi. His family has a long-standing history in farming, with their ancestral home in Hasan Abdal. Through his mother, Abida Bashir, he has familial ties to Ajmer.

Career Fashion and art After completing his schooling, Qureshi pursued higher education in the United States, graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a degree in food science.

He briefly opened a café in Lincoln, Nebraska, before relocating in 1997 to Santa Monica, California, where he has said he designed costumes for Hollywood productions. He returned from Hajj on 29 December 2007, two days after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and found that his house had been burned down amid the unrest that followed. He has said it took him two years to recover before he was able to launch his fashion brand. His fashion work is inspired by Sufi mysticism. Qureshi has taught courses in fashion design at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. He has also worked with the Pakistan Design Council in Lahore. He had a minor role in Shehzad Roy's music video for the song "Jind Jaan". He has also engaged in poetry performance, including in Dubai.

Acting Qureshi has credited actor Saba Hameed with helping refine his acting craft, and has said director Nadeem Baig persuaded him to pursue television professionally. From that point, he began making occasional appearances in films and television series.

Personal life Qureshi has described fear as the greatest obstacle to personal growth, arguing that people are conditioned from childhood to live with fear, which prevents them from reaching their full potential. He has said children should be raised "with love and trust, not fear". Kuch Ankahi Mr. Motiwala

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