Syed Asif Ali Nizami, the custodian of Delhi’s Nizamuddin Auliya shrine, and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami, returned to India on Monday after they were thought to be 'missing' in Pakistan...
Narrating their experience in Pakistan Asif Ali said, "I was taken to a place quite far from Karachi, with my face covered...
Surely, Coke Studio is doing something worthwhile...
Remember Atif Aslam with a loosened tie knot and his guitar casually slung over his shoulder while belting out Jal Pari and the cameraman with the hand-held camera hovering in the background? It defined the Coke Studio attitude, in a way...
KARACHI: It’s not a regular sight that a new season of Coke Studio gets launched with fanfare...
He was excited for the 10th season, also because soon Pakistan was going to celebrate its 70th Independence Day, and the band had been together for 28 years...
There was a big number of young people who wanted to hear comedians Saad Haroon (Pakistan) and Sanjay Rajoura (India) respond to cultural critic Nadeem Farooq Paracha’s questions, but the middle-aged and the elderly were there in no small number either...
When the question was further pushed, Rajoura said: “We [India and Pakistan] were never tolerant...
This means, for many years, the music scene in Pakistan hasn’t been much to write home about, except Coke Studio...
The fourth episode of Coke Studio Season 8 had one redeeming feature: pop band Siege’s wonderful version of the classic folk song Khari neem...
Hamid Ali Khan’s Piya dekhan ko was okay, given the stature that the classical singer has, it is expected much more of him to push the boundaries when using a platform like the Studio...
It's that time of the week, folks: Coke Studio is releasing the fifth batch of its singles today, and the return of Ali Azmat to the platform gives us enough reason to celebrate...
This is Ali's third song for Coke Studio; 'Babu Bhai' from Season 6 was a hit in 2013, and we hope 'Rangeela' is just as delightfully irreverent...
Although Bilal Maqsood is being tight-lipped about it, the media has been claiming that the new lineup for the new season of Coke Studio is all but out...
And it includes some names that were once, according to some pen-pushers, associated with the Studio run by Rohail Hyatt — such as Arif Lohar and Ali Azmat...
Coke Studio Season 8 kicked off with a fair degree of musical fanfare...
Atif Aslam’s version of the famous Sabri Brothers’ qawwali Tajdar-i-Haram left much to be desired...
Last week, Coke Studio's kick-off was dominated by Atif Aslam's reinterpretation of 'Tajdar-e-Haram' that polarised the show's listeners...
The second episode of Coke Studio Season 8 was a tad more sedate than the first one...
In its third episode, Coke Studio 8 returns to its signature, lining up a series of re-interpretations of gems from our archive of classics...
Meloncholic 'Man Amadeh Am' on the other hand is associated with the then popular Iranian singer Gogoosh who also toured Pakistan in 1975...
The third episode of Coke Studio Season 8 was much better than the preceding two parts...