Ustad Ateeq Hussain Khan Bandanawazi performed Sufiana Qawwali at the ongoing 19th National Urdu Book Fair at Quli Qutb Shah Stadium in Hyderabad. Says Hussain, “I started learning music from my ...

Between 1947 and the early 1950s, much of the music played on the state-owned Radio Pakistan comprised Urdu film songs, some Western popular and Eastern classical music, ghazals and patriotic ditties.

Famed British-Pakistani singer Zayn Malik has been the center of attention for quite a while now, and it seems like the singer has more in store for fans. The 25-year-old singer recently confirmed ...

The six-day Urdu Heritage Festival that began on Thursday has been drawing huge crowds, officials said. The festival has been held in Delhi since 2010, many people did not know about it because it was ...

The 17th annual Lux Style Awards are just a week away. This time happening in Lahore, the event has been sobered down, keeping in mind the current state of national crises; to contribute to the cause, ...

KARACHI: Zayn Malik has been the talk of the town this past week as he posed for his first ever Indian fashion magazine. The British-Pakistani singer seems to be living life to the fullest ever since ...

From mushairas and qawwali parties to Pakistani soaps and Urdu poetry on TV, the language is making a quiet comeback with a new generation, new modes and new mediums. It's a crisp winter evening and a ...

PESHAWAR: Popular Pashto singer Nazia Iqbal has said that she will release a new Urdu album on Eidul Fitr as a tribute to qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In a wind-up ceremony of her new Urdu ...

New Delhi: Last held in December 2019, the Jashn-e-Rekhta festival is returning on-ground after a pandemic break of three years. To be held from December 2 to 4, at the Major Dhyan Chand National ...

Have you ever wondered how qawwali transcended years of cultural appropriation and still finds relevance in mainstream art and cinema? In another session, founder of South Asian Alliance for ...

I was delighted to read David Honigmann’s piece about Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s popular song “Mustt Mustt” (The Life of a Song, January 25). It brought back so many memories of my teenage years when I ...