It was hard to miss the ubiquitous sounds of qawwali, of which there were many exponents, the Sabri Brothers, Munshi Raziuddin, Bahuddin, Mansoor Niazi, and Aziz Mian to name a few. In my childhood, growing up in Pakistan in the pre General Zia era such “blasphemous” content was unarguably mainstream, a music whose popularity cut across all classes and segments of society. Within 24 hours of the murder, Hakeemullah, the head of the TTP or Tehreek é Taliban Pakistan, a homegrown offshoot of the Afghan Taliban at war with the Pakistani State, made a statement that the killing of Amjad Sabri was ordered because of his “blasphemous” qawwalis. For decades they were headlined by his legendary father Ghulam Farid Sabri and his uncle Maqbool Sabri. Habib Painter singing “Bahaut Kathin hai dagar Panghat ki”Īmjad Sabri was the scion of one of Pakistan’s most beloved qawwal families, the Sabris.
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