She released her first album Bird Under Water in 2014. The Pakistani singer has been steadily gaining global attention for her work that fuses ancient Sufi traditions with inflections of folk, jazz, ...

explored the overlooked role of women in Sufi music across Pakistan, India, Kashmir, and Bengal. “I wanted to move beyond qawwali as the only Sufi music tradition,” curator Attia Shiraz told ...

Bibi happens to be the late maternal grandmother of a scholar-author Harleen Singh whose one-of-a-kind book with a curious ...

There’s something about Natasha Baig’s voice that commands your attention. It doesn’t beg, nor does it seek validation, and ...

A Sufi pilgrim ... Dil Pakistan" ("Heart, Heart Pakistan"), the third most popular international song of all time. But Vital Signs became inactive in 1997, and lead singer Junaid Jamshed, Hyatt's ...

Ghali wasted no time. Music was banned. Instruments were torched. Ancient Sufi shrines were smashed with pickaxes. Women were ordered indoors. Adulterers were stoned. The city became a dystopian ...

A few women in the audience couldn’t help ... her work in promoting cultural exchange between India and Pakistan. As it happened, singer Sharma, who is also a Punjabi ethnomusicologist, had ...

In Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India, it often accompanies qawwali music, making spiritual teachings ... the mystical verses of Sufi poetry, or the heartfelt expressions of ghazals, literature ...

What if an ideology, which is meant to impart universal wisdom and divine guidance to humanity, itself loses all its control ...

Persian poet and Sufi mystic Impact: Widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, known for his social stance and cultural impact Elvis Presley (1935-1977) – American singer and actor ...

Pakistani Charge d’Affaires, Saad Ahmad Warraich, offered a 'chaddar' at Sufi poet Amir Khusro's shrine in Delhi. Accompanied ...