PESHAWAR: Young Pashto folk singer Rashid Khan released his first thematic music album titled ‘Da Wakht Awaaz’ (the call of time) here on Friday. Rashid Khan is a PhD scholar at the Pashto Department, ...

PESHAWAR: Senior music director Ustad Nazeer Gul has said traditional Pashto music will continue to flourish despite digital music. Talking to Dawn at Music Art Academy here on Sunday, he expressed ...

PESHAWAR: Famous Pashto folk singer Mashooq Sultan died on Monday after protracted illness. She was 64. Her son Zawar Husain confirmed to The Express Tribune. She was suffering from hepatitis and ...

While new musicians from Karachi and Lahore haven’t managed to bring anything fresh to the music scene, musicians from Peshawar have created a cult following of their own. Whether it is the sound of ...

Pashtun music is characterised by the rabab, a Central Asian stringed instrument, played to the beat from tablas drums Peshawar: For years the distinctive twang of Pashtun music was drowned out by ...

Since 2001, Taliban militants operating in the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have destroyed as many as 800 music shops, according ...

More Pashtuns live in Karachi than any other city in the world and they are concerned about their heritage It was the afternoon of September 24. A group of people -- both young and old -- gathered at ...