Pashto-language
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official langua ...
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Ahmad Zahir
Ahmad Zahir (Dari/Pashto: ; 14 June 1946 – 14 June 1979) was an Afghan singer, songwriter and composer. Dubbed the " Elvis of Afghanistan", he is widely considered the all-time greatest singer of Afghanistan. The majority of his songs were sung ...
Ali Baba Khan
Ali Baba Khan ( ps, علي بابا خان; born Ali Ul Habib, 5 March 1993) is a Pakistani Pashtun Sufi singer in the Pashto music industry.
Early life and education
He was born on 5 March 1993 in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khan got h ...
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Haroon Bacha
Haroon Bacha (Pashto: هارون باچا ) (born July 27, 1972) is a Pashtun musician who sings mostly in Pashto and, to a lesser extent, in Urdu. Since starting his professional career in 1992, he has released upwards of 50 albums.
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Irfan Khan Irfan Khan may refer to:
* Irrfan Khan (1967–2020), Indian actor
* Irfan Khan (Indian cricketer) (born 1988), Indian cricketer
* Irfan Khan (Pakistani cricketer) (born 2002), Pakistani cricketer
*Irfan Khan (singer) (born 1982), Pakistani Pushto ...
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Ustad Awalmir
Ustad Awalmir ( ps, استاد اولمیر) (May 8, 1931 – April 24, 1982) was an Afghan composer, musician, singer, and poet who wrote and sang in the Pashto language.
He began learning music as a teen from various music teachers and began ...
Mangal
Mangal Rajgan (or Manghal, Mangla) is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
People with the given name
*Mangal (singer), Afghan singer
*Mangal Bagh (born 1973), Pakistani militant leader
*Mangal Dhillon, Indian actor ...
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Farhad Darya
Farhad Darya (Pashto/ Dari: ; born 22 September 1962) is an Afghan singer, composer and music producer who has written and composed songs in various languages.
Darya sings in various languages including mostly his native language of Persian/D ...
Zeek Afridi
Zeek Afridi ( ps, ; born Zahid Noor Afridi on 1 April 1979 in Peshawar) is a Pashtun singer from Pakistan.
Early life and career
Afridi belongs to the Afridi tribe of Tirah. He was raised and educated in Peshawar. He attended F.G. Boys Public ...
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Masood Akhtar
Syed Masood Akhtar (born 18 August 1946) is a former international cricketer who represented the American national side between 1979 and 1982. He was born in present-day India, and played first-class cricket in Pakistan before emigrating to the ...
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Munir Sarhadi
Munir Sarhadi (1931 – May 23, 1980) was a Pashtun-Pakistani instrumentalist, sarinda player and a folk singer. As a musician, he represented Pakistan in several countries. Munir, in 1978 became the recipient of Pride of Performance, a civ ...
Gulzar Alam
Gulzar Alam (born 17 October 1959, in Peshawar) is a Pashto singer from Pakistan. He is a famous Pashto folk and Ghazal singer, musician, and composer with fan base from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and around the world. He completed his bachelor’s ...
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Wahid Khan
Wahid Khan was an Indian surbahar and sitar player. He was the son of Imdad Khan and belonged to the Imdadkhani gharana or ''Etawah gharana'' of classical music.
Early life
Wahid Khan was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. He was still quite yo ...
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Beltoon
Momin Khan Biltoon ( ps, مومن خان بیلتون; fa, بلتون), also known as his honorific title Ustad Beltoon, was an Afghan Pashtun singer from Kabul Province, Afghanistan. He was born in Chakari village of Khaki Jabbar District, Kabu ...
Nazia Iqbal
Nazia Iqbal ( ps, ) (born c.1984) is a Pashtun singer from Pakistan.Ubaidullah Jan
Obaidullah Jan Kandaharai ( ps, عبیدالله جان کندهاری, translit=Obāidullāh Jān Kāndāhāri ), or simply known as Obaidullah Jan, was a singer from Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was popular among the Pashtuns in southern Afghanist ...
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Ghazala Javed
Ghazala Javed ( ps, ; 1 January 1988 – 18 June 2012) was a Pashtun playback singer from Swat Valley, Pakistan. She began singing since 2004 and was "popular with young, progressive ethnic Pashtuns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Her music was famous no ...
Laila Khan
Laila Khan (born Reshma Patel; 1978 30 January 2011) was a Bollywood actress, best known for her role opposite Rajesh Khanna in the 2008 movie '' Wafa: A Deadly Love Story'' and she also starred in ''Faraar'' (2011). She was allegedly married ...
Nashenas
Dr. Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat, born Sadiq Fitrat Habibi, (Pashto/Dari: ), known professionally as Nashenas (Pashto/Dari: ), is one of the oldest surviving musicians from Afghanistan. His fame began in the late 1950s, and since then he has produced ma ...
Shafi Muhammad Shah
Shafi Muhammad Shah (or Shafi Mohammad) ( ur, شفیع محمد شاہ) PP (7 September 1949–17 November 2007) was a Pakistani film and television actor. Popularly known as ''Shah-jee'', he was born in Kandiaro, Naushahro Feroze District, Sin ...
Sardar Ali Takkar
Sardar Ali Takkar ( ps, سردار علي ټکر, born 15 July 1956) is a Pakistani Pashto singer, who primarily sings the poetry of renowned Pashto poet Ghani Khan. Takkar is a graduate of the University of Engineering and Technology in Peshawa ...
Gul Zaman
According to the United States Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.
They had been captured and classified as enemy combatants in warfare following the US and allies' invasion ...
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Zarsanga
Zarsanga or Zar Sanga ( ps, زرڅانگه)(born 1946 in Lakki Marwat) is a Pashto singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She began her singing career singing for Radio Peshawar and some television programmes, and later went on to perform i ...
Nazia Iqbal
Nazia Iqbal ( ps, ) (born c.1984) is a Pashtun singer from Pakistan.Zeb Bangash
Zebunisa Bangash (born 7 March 1982), better known as Zeb Bangash, is a Pakistani singer-songwriter from Lahore, Punjab. Her family originally comes from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Apart from her solo career, she was the member of music group Zeb and ...
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Hidayatullah (singer)
Hidayatullah (1940 – 28 September 2019; sometimes spelled Hidayat Ullah, also known by honorific title Ustad Hidayatullah), was a Pakistani Pashto folk musician, playback singer and touring artist who primarily sung multilingual songs in nume ...
Musical bands
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Ismail and Junaid
Ismail and Junaid () is a Pashto musical band originating from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The band consists of two members - Ismail Khan, the lead vocalist, poet and composer and Junaid Javed, a guitarist, composer and supporting vocalist.
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Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
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Khumariyaan
Khumariyaan (, ) is a Pashto music band from Khyber Pakthunwka province of Pakistan that also plays other styles. The band has represented their Culture abroad in Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Kenya and elsewhere.
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See also
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List of Afghan singers
This is a list of notable Afghan singers that have entered the industry, currently working or have left the industry.
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*Ahmad Wali
*Ahmad Zahir
* Aryana Sayeed
*Abdul Rahim Sarban
* Amir Jan Sabori
* Awalmir
*Asad Badie
*Aziz Herawi
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Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languag ...