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 ...

NEW YORK, May 8, 2016 — The classically-trained Saami Brothers Qawwal perform traditional qawwali music following the two-day Lahore Literary Festival at Asia Society in New York. (2 hr., 7 min.) ...

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 ...

Pakistani devotees of qawwali music refer to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as "the voice of heaven." This double-CD release—featuring the last tracks he recorded before his death in 1997—is a stirring… By ...

Pakistan is mourning the death of one of its most famous musicians, a Sufi Muslim who was shot dead in an attack claimed by the Taliban, who consider his music blasphemous. Amjad Sabri, 45, was ...

Qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family has been bound to the shrine of Baba Farid Ganj Shakar for the past 800 years. The family legend is that the Sufi saint blessed them with their heritage ...

ISLAMABAD: Music-lovers including traditional Qawwali lovers observed the death anniversary of legendary singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan here on Tuesday. “The King of Qawwali”, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali ...

REUTERS - Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, known for both Bollywood hits and Qawwali, Sufi devotional music that dates back more than 700 years, is taking the two genres to Britain in August for three ...

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 ...