One of the best known qawwali singers Amjad Sabri was shot dead by unknown assailants in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Wednesday. According to media reports, Sabri was travelling in a car with ...

India's former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh has got a "21-gun salute" in a parody 'qawwali' for standing up for Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in his controversial new book. A ...

“Pop music is short-lived. Today it is all over, tomorrow it is forgotten. The classic style of Qawwali has been retained for 700 years and experiments to introduce pop in Qawwali have had a ...

Nearly two years after Pakistan's foremost qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was gunned down in Karachi, the devotional music of Islam's Sufi mystical sect is struggling to survive, as fears of sectarianism ...

Pakistan is a country with a rich and diverse musical culture, with a wide range of musical styles and genres that have developed over the years. From the traditional folk music of rural areas to the ...

One of Pakistan's best known Sufi musicians has been shot dead by unknown assailants riding a motorcycle in Karachi, triggering an outpouring of grief over what police described as an "act of terror".

Pakistani mourners gather around an ambulance carrying the coffin of Sufi musician Amjad Sabri during his funeral in Karachi on June 23, 2016. Thousands of Pakistanis on June 23 thronged the streets ...