KARACHI - Quraish Pur, a renowned scholar, Urdu writer/novelist, columnist and media expert died of protracted illness in Karachi on Monday. The family sources have confirmed that Quraish Pur died after his condition deteriorated on Monday. He had been admitted to a private hospital. Quraish Pur became a household name throughout the country during the 1970s when he hosted 'Kasauti', one of the country's longest-running and most popular television quiz shows. 
Alongwith his colleagues on the show - Obaidullah Baig, Iftikhar Arif and later Ghazi Salahuddin - Quraish Pur was renowned for extraordinary knowledge of history, literature, geography and the sciences. Obaidullah Baig had passed away in Karachi earlier last year.