PESHAWAR: Young Pashto pop singer Shahsawar Khan is working on his first-ever ghazal album on public demand. Born on January 6, 1993 in Swabi district’s Jalbai village, he shifted with his parents to ...

AMIR Hamza Khan Shinwari, or Hamza Baba as he is known, started writing poetry in Urdu when he was only in grade five. But his spiritual guide, Syed Abdul Sattar Shah Baacha, asked him to switch to ...

Ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan first mesmerised connoisseurs with his rendition of Gulon Main Rang Bhare, step one of a long musical journey that lasted five decades. The death of the artist, who gave ...

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he last four decades in Afghanistan have been disastrous not only in terms of security and economy but also art and culture. As such, the artists who continued to brave the turmoil and continued to ...

PESHAWAR: A new compilation of Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari’s poetry, titled Baad-e-Khyber, was introduced during an event commemorating his 19th death anniversary. The previously unpublished manuscript ...

Ustad Khyal Muhammad is one the most popular Ghazal Singer of Pashto Music, Known as Pashto Shehenshah-e-Ghazal. The legendary singer was given the Presidential Award Pride of Performance, two times ...