Malala Yousafzai's Biography

Malala Yousafzai (Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎; Urdu: ملالہ یوسف زئی‎ Malālah Yūsafzay, born 12 July 1997)[1] is a Pakistani school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai...

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Arfa Karim's Biography

Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa (Urdu: ارفع کریم رندهاوا‎‎, 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who in 2004 at the age of nine years became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). She kept the title until 2008. Arfa represented Pakistan on various international forums including the TechEd Developers Conference. She also received the President’s Award for Pride of Performance. A science park in...

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Shaan Shahid's Biography

Shaan (Punjabi: شان) (born April 27, 1971 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani actor, writer and director. Upon making his debut in Javed Fazil's Bulandi alongside Reema Khan, Shaan has acted in numerous commercially successful films and has established himself as one of the critically acclaimed leading actors of Pakistan. Shaan has won many awards in Pakistan including 1 Pride of Performance, 4 National Film Awards, 15 Nigar Awards, 5 Lux Style...

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Sanam Baloch's Biography

Sanam Baloch (Urdu: صنم بلوچ‎) (born July 14, 1986) is a Pakistani actress and television host.[1][2][3] Sanam was born in Karachi and started her career as a talk show anchor in the Sindhi television channel KTN. Sanam hosted two shows Sanam Ji Pasand and Diyoo on KTN. Sanam made her debut on Urdu television in Fahad Mustafa's long play Kalaq which turned out to be a hit.[4] She has also performed in many Urdu and Sindhi language music videos.[5]...

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A. R. Rahman's Biography

Allah-Rakha Rahman ( pronunciation (help·info) (born A. S. Dileep Kumar, 6 January 1966)) is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist.[3] Described as the world's most prominent and prolific film composer by Time,[4] his works are notable for integrating Eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and traditional orchestral arrangements. He...

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Biography

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Punjabi: نصرت فتح علی خان (13) October 1948 – 16 August 1997), a renowned Pakistani musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis. He possessed an extraordinary range of vocal abilities[1][2] and could perform at a high level of intensity for several hours. Extending the 600-year old Qawwali tradition of his family, Khan is widely credited with introducing Qawwali music to international...

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Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's Biography

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (born 1974) (Urdu: راحت فتح علی خان‎)) is a Pakistani singer, primarily of Qawwali, a devotional music of the Muslim Sufis. He is the nephew of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and son of Ustad Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan and also the grandson of legendary Qawwali singer Fateh Ali Khan.[1] In addition to Qawwali, he also performs ghazals and other light music. He is popular as a Bollywood and Lollywood playback singer.[2] Early life...

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Hadiqa Kiani's Biography

Hadiqa Kiani (Urdu: حدیقہ کیانی‎; born 11 August 1974) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter and model.[1][2] Kiani released her first album, Raaz, in 1995. She was later nominated and won numerous awards in Pakistan and internationally.[citation needed] She has released five subsequent albums. Kiani was named "Best Pop Female Singer" in Pakistan.[citation needed] In 2009, Kiani became a judge on the Pakistani reality television shows Pakistan Idol...

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Atif Aslam's Biography

Atif Aslam (Urdu: عاطف اسلم‎; born in Wazirabad, Gujranwala District, Punjab, Pakistan as Muhammad Atif Aslam) is a Pakistani pop singer and film actor, and makes cameo appearances in Bollywood (Indian) films. His debut as an actor was in the 2011 film Pakistani movie Bol. He has generated numerous chart-topping songs,[1] and is known for his vocal belting technique.[2] Atif is a recipient for the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan's highest civilian...

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Sunidhi Chauhan's Biography

Sunidhi Chauhan (born Nidhi Chauhan[1] on 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has recorded songs for Urdu, Oriya, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Assamese, Gujarati and Nepali films,which made her a leading singer in India and across the world. She has sung the remix track called "Heartbeat" with Enrique Iglesias.[2] Chauhan began to sing at the age of...

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