PESHAWAR: The Aga Khan Music Awards Master Jury has announced to honour 10 prominent folk artists, composers and instrumentalists around the world and Pashto folk maestro Zarsanga Bibi is among the ...

Dr Rashid Ahmad Khan, the first ever PhD scholar on Pashto music, has claimed that Hindi classical music had its origin in the Pashtun belt of the Hindu Kush range the folk melody of which is as old ...

PESHAWAR: Senior Afghan folk artist Barialay Wali has asked music buffs to ensure revival of traditional Pashto music along with quality poetry. He said that losing classics Pashto music traditions ...

The historic building of the Radio Pakistan Peshawar has been left completely destroyed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rioters and with it nearly a century of Pashto music and rare audio ...

PESHAWAR: The first ever Pashto-Chinese song on seventy years old phenomenal friendship between Pakistan and China is attracting applause from dwellers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, terming the melody as ...

A popular veteran Pashto singer Qamar Gula passed away at a hospital in Toronto, Canada after a short illness, family sources confirmed on Saturday. She was born in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, and lived ...

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 ...

When future generations ask who silenced Pashtun music, the Taliban won’t get the blame – it will be piracy. The “pirates” are easily identifiable – they are the young men armed with laptops who can ...

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 ...