PESHAWAR: Clad in a traditional dress and a thick khakhi shawl, Zainullah Khan Umerzai clutches his Chitrali sitar with pride. He is touted as one of the finest Chitrali sitar players who are ...

PESHAWAR: Popular nonagenarian sitar player, poet and folk singer Shad Mohammad Ustad passed away at Babini village in Mardan on Friday. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard near his village ...

Sitting in a bicycle workshop in one of Mardan’s oldest settlements, Babini village, he tunes his Chitrali sitar with shaky hands, the rifle to his soldier. Shad Muhammad today is one of the few ...

USTAD Wahab Gul, 72, a resident of Swabi district, is the senior most and popular Chitrali sitar player in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He had launched his career in his early teens as an amateur artist but ...

PESHAWAR: Once popular in Pashto cultural Hujra music, the early age string music instrument sitar has been disappearing from the stage of Pashtuns cultural musical shows and has been widely replaced ...