Students at Lahore University of Management Sciences went viral on Instagram for turning Justin Bieber's hit song into a qawwali. Traditionalists weren't too happy about it.

It brought back so many memories of my teenage years when I travelled to Pakistan in 1997 for my aunt’s wedding. My elder brother, a big fan of the Urdu singer, requested I bring back, as a gift, the ...

Qawwali is a form of devotional music that expresses the mystical Sufi practice of Islam in South Asia, mainly in areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term qawwali comes from the Arabic word ...

And it's not just India that has produced the big names of Qawwali, Pakistan has a history of stars as well. Amjad Farid Sabri was one of the biggest Qawwali musicians from Pakistan and became one ...

The tradition is very much alive, both in its spiritual and political meanings. Qureshi, Regula. Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context, and Meaning in Qawwali. University of Chicago Press ...

Canadian singer Justin Bieber's chart-topping hit Baby was recently reimagined as a qawwali at a university event in Lahore, Pakistan. The performance, which took place during a qawwali night on ...

The critically acclaimed Pakistani documentary ‘Songs of the Sufi’ was screened at the Theatre Of Digital Art (TODA) at Souk ...

others trolled the group for the unexpected fusion Canadian singer Justin Bieber's chart-topping hit Baby was recently reimagined as a qawwali at a university event in Lahore, Pakistan.