Poems from Allama Iqbal and Iranian poets Rumi, Ferdowsi and Hafez were recited during the performance, the Embassy of Pakistan announced on Sunday. The performance was organized to promote cultural ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is widely credited for bringing global attention to Qawwali music, extending the 600yr old Qawwali ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pakistani qawwali (Sufi devotional music) singers Azmat Sabri (L) and his brother Talha Sabri (R) perform with their group during ...

KARACHI: Nearly two years after Pakistan's foremost qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was gunned down in Karachi, the devotional music of Sufi mystical sect is struggling to survive, as fears of sectarianism ...

Nearly two years after Pakistan’s foremost qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was gunned down in Karachi, the devotional music of Islam’s Sufi mystical sect is struggling to survive, as fears of sectarianism ...

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.

Can a devotional song erase the lines that divide people? Across history, music has often done what politics and borders ...

This year’s World Music Arts and Dance (Womad) festival held in the United Kingdom flaunted an exquisite assortment of global music legends, ranging from Ziggy Marley to Salif Keita to Robert Plant.

“Pop music is short-lived. Today it is all over, tomorrow it is forgotten. The classic style of Qawwali has been retained for 700 years and experiments to introduce pop in Qawwali have had a ...

The veteran band, which is led by award-winning musician Qawwal Ghulam Fareeddin Ayaz al-Hussaini, is in Iran to take part in the celebrations of Pakistan’s Independence Day, which occurs on August 14 ...