As the voice of Pakistan’s aching, lovelorn heart since he began his career in 1957, Mehdi Hassan was used to being stopped by fans—at airports, in the marketplace, at weddings. Years ago, he was ...

Struggling with life for almost a decade, the India-born Pakistani ghazal singing legend Ustad Mehdi Hassan has passed away at a local hospital in Karachi on Wednesday. He was 84. “My father has been ...

The Pakistani film industry and film music have had their peak period: both flourished between the early 1950s and the mid-1970s and then both went into decline and atrophied. There has been a revival ...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee felicitated Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali at his performance here on Tuesday evening, quoting Swami Vivekananda about tolerance. “This is the ...

New Delhi, May 5: Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali dislikes Bollywood item numbers like Sheila, Munni and Chhammak Chhallo, but is effusive in his praise for Bollywood actor Madhuri Dixit.

A session on 'Urdu Ghazal New Formations' was held at the 14th International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, which was moderated by Nasira Zuberi. On this occasion, Ambreen ...

Young radio artist and TV singer Ahsan Aqeel enthralled the audience by paying tribute to late ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan, who passed away earlier in the day, at Trust for Voluntary Organisation on ...

One of the South Asia’s most loved ghazal, thumri and classical singers, Iqbal Bano, died on Tuesday at a local hospital in Lahore. She was 74. One of the South Asia’s most loved ghazal, thumri and ...