Bhulley Shah

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Year 1758 AD. Syed Abdullah Shah, a member of the distinguished Muslim Syed family dies in Kasur, and his body is denied a burial in Kasur’s graveyard and is left without funeral proceedings out-side the town for some days until a non-native stranger arrives their to perform Syed Abdullah Shah’s funeral. Commonly known as Bulleh […]

Sehba Akhtar

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Sehba Akhtar (September 23, 1930 – February 19, 1996) was a poet and songwriter in Pakistan. He was born to Sir Rehmat Ali Rehmat, a poet and a contemporary of Agha Hashr Kashmiri, in Srinagar, India. Sehba originally belonged to Amritsar. He started writing verses in his school days. He passed his high school from Breli and later attended the […]

Ghulam Mustafa Khan

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Ghulam Mustafa Khan, PhD, D.Litt, SI, (September 23, 1912 – September 25, 2005) was a researcher, critic, linguist, author, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics, educationist and religious and spiritual leader belonging to Naqshbandi order of Sufism. He was one of most notable people of Hyderabad, Sindh Pakistan. In 1928 he passed ninth grade from Anjuman Islamia High School, Jabalpur and went to Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh for the rest of his education. He received his higher education at […]

Amanat Ali Khan

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Ustad Amanat Ali Khan (Urdu: استاد امانت علی خان; born 1932–1974) was a Pakistani classical/ghazal singer, from the Patiala gharana. He was honoured with the ‘Pride of Performance’ award by the government of Pakistan. He stands with great singing icons likeMehdi Hassan and Ahmed Rushdi. Amanat Ali Khan was born Hoshiarpur, Punjab to Akhtar Husain Khan and the grandson of Ali Baksh Jarnail, the founder of […]

Hajra Masroor

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Hajra Masroor (Urdu: ہاجرہ مسرور; born January 17, 1930)  is a Pakistani feminist writer. She has written several books of short stories in which she has raised the social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men. She has also received several awards including Pride of Performance Award for best writer in 1995 and Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Award. Hajra began writing […]

Lehri

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Safirullah Siddiqui ‘Lehri’ (January 2, 1929 – September 13, 2012) was one of Pakistan’s greatest comedians who made his name in Urdu films. His film career started in the 1950s and lasted until the 1980s. He passed away on Sept. 13, 2012 in Karachi after a prolonged illness. He was 83. Lehri won the Nigar Award  for around a dozen films. […]

Rais Amrohvi

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Syed Muhammad Mehdi, known as Rais Amrohvi (or Raees Amrohvi) (رئیس امروہوی) (1988-1914) was a noted scholar, Urdu poet andpsychoanalyst from Pakistan. He was born on September 12, 1914 in Amroha, India, in a notable family of scholars. Almost all the members of his family were poets. He migrated to Pakistan on October 19, 1947 and settled in Karachi. He was known for his unique style of Qatanigari […]

Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah

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Zaib-un-Nissa ( Arabic: زیب‌النسا‎; transliterated Zeb-un-Nissa, Zaibunnissa, Zaibun Nisa, Zaibunisa, Zaib-un-Nisa, Zebunnissa, Zeb-un-Nisa) Hamidullah (December 25, 1921 – September 10, 2000) was a pioneer of Pakistani literatureand journalism in English, and also a pioneer of feminism in Pakistan. She was Pakistan’s first female columnist (in English), editor, publisher and political commentator. Zaibunnisa Street inKarachi was named for her.  Before Partition, she wrote for many Indian newspapers, and was the first Muslim […]

Pakistan students outshine US youth in Space Art Contest

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Colorado: Capturing many of award slots, Brilliant Pakistani students outshine their counterparts from United States and Turkey in Space Foundation Student Art Contest. The Space Foundation invited students from around the world in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to submit original artwork depicting the theme, “Space is Infinite — Explore!” More than 1,500 contestants from U.S. […]

Melody in the Darkness

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“We may have lost the light in our eyes, but we wish to see a bright future for our country”, says Khaadim Jaffri, a visually impaired musician from Multan who has not allowed his disability to become a handicap. Along with brother Mukhtiar Jaffri and pianist Ajmal,the trio have composed music for several Siraiki albums. […]

Pakistani film “Lamha” bags two awards at New York Film Festival

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KARACHI: Pakistani film “Lamha (Seedlings)” bagged two awards at the New York City International Film Festival (NYCIFF), which concluded early Friday. “Lamha” won the Best Feature Film – Audience Award and its leading lady Aamina Sheikh won the Best Actress in Leading Role award in a late-night ceremony at the Angelika Film Centre in New […]

Ishtiaq Ahmad

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Ishtiaq Ahmad (or Ishtiaq Ahmed or اﺸﺘﻴﺎﻖ اﺤﻤﺩ in Urdu), is primarily a fiction writer from Lahore, Pakistan (originally from Jhang,Pakistan), famous for his spy, detective novels in the Urdu language, and is the author of the highest number of novels (his 773rd novel is published by Atlantis Publications in April 2011) by any author in any language throughout the world.[citation needed] He started by writing short […]

Fatima Surayya Bajia

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Fatima Surayya Bajia PP (Urdu: فاطمہ ثُڑیا باجیا), is a renowned Urdu novelist,playwright and drama writer of Pakistan. She has been awarded various awards at home and abroad including Japan’s highest civil award in recognition of her works. She also remained Advisor to the Chief Minister of Sindh province in Pakistan. Born on 1 September 1930 in Hyderabad, India, she has never attended a formal school, all her […]

Anwar Maqsood

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Anwar Maqsood Hameedi(Urdu: انور مقصود حمیدی) commonly known as Anwar Maqsood Urdu: انور مقصود) (born 1935) is a Pakistani Playwright, poet, television host, satirist, humorist, infrequent actor and painter who has worked in the entertainment industry since the 1970s. Born in Hyderabad State which, in 1935, was part of British Rajand, since 1948, part of India, Anwar Maqsood studied at the Gulbarga Trust School in […]

Ismail Gulgee

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Ismail Gulgee Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (twice), Hilal-e-Imtiaz, was an award-winning, globally famous Pakistani artist born in Peshawar. He was a qualified engineer in the U.S. and self-taught abstract painter and portrait painter. From about 1960 on, he was noted as an abstract painter influenced by the tradition of Islamic calligraphy and by the American […]

Umer Sharif

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Umer Sharif, TI (Urdu: عمر شریف, also spelled Omer Sharif; born 19 April 1955 in the town of Liaquatabad in Karachi, Sindh) is a Pakistani stand-up comedian, stage, film and television actor, writer, director and producer. His original name is Mohammad Umer, however he changed that to Umer Zarif when he joined the theater and […]

Sadequain

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Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi (Urdu: سید صادقین احمد نقوی), Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, also often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a world-renowned Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter. He is considered as one of the finest painters and calligraphers Pakistan has ever produced. During nineteen sixties he stayed in interior Sindh in areas surrounded by desert where nothing […]

Mir Zafar Ali

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Mir Zafar Ali (Urdu:میر ظفر علی) is an award-winning Pakistani movie visual effects specialist and artist. He played a background role in the team that won the Oscar award for best visual effects in 2007, for the movie The Golden Compass. He is the first Pakistani to have been connected with an Oscar award-winning venture, for Best Visual Effects. Ali has worked […]

Ashfaq Ahmed

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Ashfaq Ahmed, PP, SI (Urdu: اشفاق احمد) (August 22, 1925 – September 7, 2004) was a distinguished writer, playwright, broadcaster, intellectual and spiritualist from Pakistan. His qualities of head and heart, in particular his ability to weave Islamic (sufi) wisdom into everyday folk experience earned appreciation across the world. He was regarded by many as […]

Amjad Islam Amjad

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Amjad Islam Amjad, PP, SI (Urdu: امجد اسلام امجد) (born August 4, 1944 in Sialkot) is a famous Urdu poet, drama writer and lyricist from Pakistan. He received his education in Lahore. He graduated from Islamia College Civil Lines, Lahore. His career started as a lecturer in M.A.O College Lahore. From 1975 to 1979 he […]

Abida Parveen

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Abida Parveen (born 1954) (Sindhi: عابده پروين, Urdu: عابده پروین), is a Pakistani singer of Sindhi descent and one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music (Sufiana kalaam). She sings mainly ghazals, Urdu love songs, and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets. Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi,Saraiki, Punjabi and Persian, and together with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered one of […]

Moin Akhter

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Moin Akhtar (Urdu: معین اختر, also spelled as, Moeen Akhtar; 24 December 1950 – 22 April 2011) was a Pakistani television, film and stage actor, as well as a humorist, comedian, impersonator, and ahost. He was also a play writer, singer, film director and a producer.  Akhtar was born in Karachi to Urdu speaking Kashmiri parents migrated from Mumbai India,  was highly dynamic and versatile performer, he made his debut for television on 6 September 1966, in a variety show held on PTV to celebrate […]

Noor Jehan

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Noorjehan  was the adopted stage name for Allah Wasai (September 21, 1926 – December 23, 2000) who was a legendary singer and actress in British India and Pakistan. Her career spanned seven decades. She was renowned as one of the greatest and most influential singers of her time in South Asia and was given the honorific title ofMalika-e-Tarannum (Urdu: ملکہ ترنم, English: the queen of […]

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan   (October 13, 1948 – August 16, 1997), a world-renowned Pakistani musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis (a mystical tradition within Islam). Considered one of the greatest singers ever recorded, he possessed a six-octave vocal range and could perform at a high level of […]