The Music of Pakistan includes diverse elements ranging from music from various parts of South Asia as well as Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and modern-day Western popular music influences. With these multiple influences, a distinctive Pakistani music has emerged.
Saraiki is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda group, spoken by 26 million people primarily in the south-western half of the province of Punjab in Pakistan. It was previously known as Multani, after its main dialect.
Niazi, Niazai or Niyazai is one of the largest Pashtun tribes which resides in Afghanistan and northwestern part of Pakistan.
Amir Abdullah Khan Rokhri was a politician and was actively involved in the Pakistan Movement.
Attaullah Khan NiaziSI PP, known professionally as Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi, also known as Lala, is a Pakistani musician, singer and poet from Isakhel in Mianwali District, Punjab. He is mainly associated with Punjabi folk music and has written various songs and poems in the language.
Sargodha Division is an administrative division of Punjab province, Pakistan. Sargodha city is the capital of the division. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the total population of the division was 8.18 million. Divisions are the third tier of government below the federal and provincial levels.
Saraiki culture is the culture of the Saraiki people, residing in Pakistan and outside Pakistan.
Muhammad Humair Hayat Khan Niazi of Rokhri has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He defeated a federal minister, Sher Afghan Khan Niazi, in the 2008 elections for the NA-72 constituency. He previously served as District Nazim of Mianwali from 2001 to 2005. From 1991 to 1993, he was the chairman of the Zila Council of Mianwali. He was also elected as the youngest sitting chairman at 25.
Pakistani folk music refers to the local genre of folk music that originates from Pakistan.
South Punjab, also proposed as Bahawalpur-South Punjab or Sairaikistan, are the names for the proposals to create a new so called province in Pakistan, out of the southern regions of Punjab. The region comprises the Bahawalpur, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions. The proposed province would form about 52 percent of the total area and almost 40 percent of the population of the current Punjab province.
Khawaja Akmal was a veteran Pakistani television actor and comedian who was mostly popular for playing comic roles in Pakistani sitcoms. His notable work includes Bulbulay, Rusgullay, Batashay and Samandar Hai Darmiyan. He died of a heart attack on 26 November 2017 in Quetta.
Sanwal "Atta" Esakhelvi is a British-Pakistani visual effects supervisor, sound designer, singer, musician and songwriter. Before establishing himself as a singer, Esakhelvi was a professional cricketer until 2006 and has worked in British film industry as a VFX artist and sound engineer. He released his first album Teray Khayal Mein (2017) and debuted as a featured artist in the tenth-season of Coke Studio along with his father.
Ghūlām Muḥammad Gūlāb was a Pakistani television and film actor. During his artistic career he starred in more than 300 Urdu and Sindhi dramas and 6 films.
Events from the year 2020 in Pakistan.
Muhammad Yousuf was a folk and playback singer of Pakistan.
Ejaz Qaiser was a Pakistani singer. He was known for singing Ghazals. On 14 August 2015, President of Pakistan bestowed him with Pride of Performance.
Mashooq Sultan, was a Pakistani folk singer and the former actress. The recipient of numerous accolades, including, a highest national literary award of Pakistan the Pride of Performance, she is sometimes referred to as "Melody Queen of the Pashto folk music" for her contributions to Pashto music and "Queen of the stage" for representing Pakistan in numerous foreign countries such as the US, the UK, France, Belgium, the UAE and in Afghanistan. As a multilingual singer, she worked in 1,500 albums written in different regional languages such as Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki and primarily in Pashto language. She is also credited for singing gazals, and also worked as a playback singer in Pashto films.
Mufti Zar Wali Khan, was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and Friday sermon preacher. He was the founder and the principal of Jamia Ahsan Ul Uloom.
Abdul Majid Jahangir was a Pakistani comic actor. He was best known for his comedy roles and caricatures acted in PTV's show Fifty-Fifty.
Suraiya Shahab was a Pakistani newscaster, poet, and novelist. She worked as a news presenter at Radio Pakistan, Pakistan Television, BBC Urdu, and German radio Deutsche Welle from the 1960s to the 1990s.
