Renowned poet Iftikhar Arif said that he had not seen any other institution where so many significant cultural streams ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"Hello…mic check," boomed a voice at the presentation on 'Qawwali Music and the Sufi Poetry Tradition' on the second day of the fifth Karachi Literature Festival. 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 ...

Witty one-liners by writer Dr Arfa Syeda Zehra taking subtle digs at the provincial government dominated an enchanting discussion on qawali, titled ‘Festivity of Soul: the Tradition of Qawali’, at the ...

The recent three-day Urdu fair Jashn-e-Rekhta in Delhi was a celebration of the quintessential spirit of the language, its composite culture, inclusive ethos, creative richness and linguistic grandeur ...

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 ...