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.

After crooning scores of songs for his Bollywood and Pakistani films, Ali Zafar is all set to take the mic for a Punjabi film song -- a qawwali. At a recent style awards gala in Pakistan, Ali paid a ...

The Pakistani qawwali icon sang words written centuries ago and died decades ago. He’s got a new album out. In June 2021, in a Nissen hut in the middle of Wiltshire, England, less than 30 miles from ...

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 ...

Pakistan joined the 18th 'World Samaa International Festival for Chanting and Spiritual Music' in Egypt on Thursday as an honorary guest, marking a significant cultural presence at an event regarded ...

Qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family has been bound to the shrine of Baba Farid Ganj Shakar for the past 800 years. The family legend is that the Sufi saint blessed them with their heritage ...