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. The production team included Rohail Hyatt as the executive producer along with Umber Hyatt and Nofil Naqvi being the producers of the show. Natasha De Souza and Naseer-ud-din Wasif served as production team members.

Artists

Artists featured in the show included,

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Ali Azmat Ali Azmat Pacha (born 20 April 1966) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He is best known as the lead singer for the influential Sufi rock band Junoon and for his subsequent solo career later followed by a career as an act ...

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, Ustaad H. B Gullo, Saieen Tufail Ahmed, Ahsan Farooq,

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, Saba & Selina and Mauj.

Featured Artists

*Mauj *Ustad Hussain Baksh Gullo *

*Sain Tufail *

The show also featured a house band which had some of the high-profile musicians in the country including, Omran Shafique on guitars, Kamran Zafar on bass guitars,

Zeeshan Parwez Sajid & Zeeshan ( pronounced as "Saa-jid and Zeesh-shaan") are a Pakistani electronic music duo from Peshawar, composed of Sajid Ghafoor (guitars and harmonicas) and Zeeshan Parwez (synths, laptops and FX modules). Both members released thei ...

on keyboards and turntables, Louis 'Gumby' Pinto on drums. Other members of the house band included, Saba Shabbir, Athar Sani and Selina Rashid on backing vocals along with Babar Khanna, Zulfiq 'Shazee' Ahmed Khan and The Abdul Latif Band on percussions.

Backing Vocals

*Saba Shabbir *Selina Rashid

House Band

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: Kamran "Mannu" Zafar *Coordinator & Flute: Rahat Ali *DJ and Synthesizers: Zeeshan Parvez *

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: Louis "Gumby" Pinto *

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: Omran "Momo" Shafique *

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: The Abdul Latif Band, Babar Khanna & Shaizi

Episodes

The first episode aired on 8 June, followed by the second episode being aired on 29 June. The third episode was aired on all locals channels on 20 July and the show came to an end on 4 August, which also rebroadcast three songs, "Sar Kiye" by

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" by Ali Azmat featuring Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and "Allah Hu" by Tufail Ahmed and Ali Zafar, from the previous episodes.

Notes

References

External links

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Season 1 Season One may refer to: Albums * ''Season One'' (Suburban Legends album), 2004 * ''Season One'' (All Sons & Daughters album), 2012 * ''Season One'' (Saukrates album), 2012 See also * * * Season 2 (disambiguation) Season 2 may refer to: ...

2008 Pakistani television seasons