Javed Akhtar has once more reflected on the enduring cultural ties between India and Pakistan. He warmly recalls his profound ...

Javed Akhtar spoke highly of the late qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, as he recalled an anecdote about the singer ...

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 ...

Grammy winner and Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab said she has been a fan of qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s music since she was eight years old, as her parents would blast Khan’s songs ...

Qawwali is a form of devotional music that expresses the mystical Sufi practice of Islam in South Asia, mainly in areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term qawwali comes from the Arabic word ...

Pakistan: Zain Zoheb, said to be the youngest qawwali band in the subcontinent, is making headlines once again. Best known ...

Here are some of the best forms of music that can be found in Pakistan: Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music that originated in the Indian subcontinent and is now popular throughout Pakistan.

On the face of it, qawwali is more popular than it has ever been in Pakistan. But are newer incarnations of qawwali straying away from the established traditions of this revered musical form and ...

Qawwali has origins as 13th-century Sufi devotional ... which depicts divergent Pakistani spiritual journeys. Their ensemble doesn’t have any full-length albums available, but it’s easy ...