One fine morning in 1954, people were listening a song from radio Pakistan Karachi’s station,The message of the song was unique, the voice was clear and forceful and the lyrics were "Bunder Road say Keamari".
You can do a world of good for yourself if you keep a steady course ,The above maxim holds true to the legendary music composer of the yesteryear, Ghulam Haider.
In my student life Ahmad Rushdi's song 'Ko Ko Korina' pictured on young Waheed Murad captured hearts of music lovers,
STYLE is the composer. It is what distinguishes one creative artiste from others. Leading composers since the advent of talkies in the sub-continent, had styles of their own and their compositions, more often than not, were recognizable from the very first note.
Mehdi Hassan,“A sublime voice” Renowned ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan has recently been suffering from ill health caused by a paralytic stroke. Fortunately he is on the road to recovery and hopes to resume his singing career. Saqib Razaq looks back at an eventful career of the artiste who single ...
Noor Jehan’s immortal melodies She sang her swan-song for Sakhi Badshah, a Punjabi movie released in 1997 and then Noor Jehan, the Melody Queen, gave her last bow on the stage of South Asian music on December 23, 2000. The story of Noor Jehan’s incredible success that started during the Brit...
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It was love and mystical magic that continued unabated throughout the show with a state-of-the-art stage and sound system, a fitting backdrop and above all, a cultured crowd.
Haroon Khalid hangs out on the set of Ataullah Esakhelvi's newest music video. 24 year-old Imran, clad in a black leather jacket, sits on a bar chair, playing his brown and white ibanez guitar. 
Millions adore Runa Laila and there has never been anyone quite like her. The immense pathos and longing in Runa's voice was ideal for the tragic Pakistani movies of the 1960s. 
‘Sar-i-Lamakaan se talab hui’, crooned the Sabri Brothers at their best. Yes, he’s been summoned by the Lamakaan, ‘One with no fixed abode’. And with this comes to an end a glorious chapter in traditional qawwali singing with the passage of Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (1941-2011). 
One fine morning in 1954, people were listening a song from radio Pakistan Karachi’s station,The message of the song was unique, the voice was clear and forceful and the lyrics were "Bunder Road say Keamari".
One of the enchanting male voices, which helped Pakistani composers of film songs to communicate their creative melodic ideas to the people, specially the cine-goers in the country during the golden era of Pakistani film industry, was that of late Saleem Raza.
Sona na chandi na koi mehel jan-e-mun tujh ko mein day sakoon ga ,Phir bhi ye wada hai tujh say tu jo karay pyar mujh say , Chota sa gahr tujh ko doon ga dukh sukh ka saathi banu ga
Kahan ho tum chalay Aao mohabbat ka taqaza hai,Gham-e-duniya say ghabra kar tumhain dil nay pukara hai, kahan ho tum, Tumhari bay rukhi ik din hamari jaan lay lay gee
The speed with which Pakistan has lost several of its frontline Qawwals in recent years has frightened the lovers of devotional music in the country and abroad. 
Duniya walo tumhari duniya mein, Jeena seekha naheen abhi hum nay, Her qadam per faraib khaya hai, Lut tay deikhi hai her khushi hum nay
Once in the 1960s, Ustad Amanat Ali Khan persuaded me to accompany him to listen to a man called Tufail at a festive occasion of the deradars of Heera Mandi. Now Amanat Ali was the scion of the still on-the-make Patiala Gharana of singing, and he was unable to set aside his put-on pride.
Muhammad Alam Lohar was a prominent Punjabi folk music singer of Pakistan. He died in 1979 in an accident. He is also credited with popularising the term and song Jugni. 
Zubaida Khanum epitomized the robustness of the rhythm- based music of Lahore, the city that gave us singing stalwarts like Noor Jehan, Suraiya, Shamshad Begum, Zeenat Begum, S.D. Batish,
He was born in a Siraiki family of potter about seventy years ago and was named Ghulam Muhammad. As a child he used to suffer from various ailments and someone mentioned that the name Ghulam Muhammad was rather heavy for the child.
All this year, NPR is bringing you the stories of 50 great voices from around the world. Of course, when you're making such a list, there's bound to be debate.
WHEN YOU MEET Nayyara Noor, she strikes you as a housewife next door.She'll talk to you about her children's education, her husband's fondness for sweets and her Insatiable appetite for recipes, She doesn't give you the Impression of being a celebrity. 
In the early 1970s, a cultural program, 'Loak Mela', used to be telecast from Islamabad television station. The show was hosted by Aksi Mufti, son of the popular writer-cum-thinker, Mumtaz Mufti. 
UNTIL not too long ago, Munni Begum, the stylish ghazal singer was counted among senior vocalists of Pakistan. Her singing style was appreciated and her ghazals and naghmas were enjoyed and applauded not only in Pakistan,
RENOWNED classical and ghazal singer, Mehnaz says that her entire family is very artistic in one way or the other and had she not been a singer, she would most certainly have been pursuing some other art-related profession. 
Once in a lifetime, a man is born who will shake the consciousness and passion of the music industry. Such a man is Mehdi Hassan. Khan Saheb Mehdi Hassan was born in Luna, which is 107 miles from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.