See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Haniya Aslam was sitting in her family home in the turbulent, deeply ...

When future generations ask who silenced Pashtun music, the Taliban won’t get the blame – it will be piracy. The “pirates” are easily identifiable – they are the young men armed with laptops who can ...

Since 2001, Taliban militants operating in the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have destroyed as many as 800 music shops, according ...

Her first audience was the sheep and horses she herded in rural Pakistan, but she became a national hero. So why is this folk music icon reduced to living in a makeshift house? In a bootleg video from ...

Famous Pashto singer Nazia Iqbal has a huge fan following not only in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gulf, but all over the world in areas where Pakhtuns live. She sings in Urdu, Punjabi, Persian and ...

PESHAWAR: Senior Afghan folk artist Barialay Wali has asked music buffs to ensure revival of traditional Pashto music along with quality poetry. He said that losing classics Pashto music traditions ...

GARMSIR, Afghanistan: The DJs of Radio Garmsir in Afgha-nistan's lower Helmand River valley knew their station had touched a nerve when the letters started pouring in. First a few, then more, and ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In one of the more unexpected outcomes of Pakistan’s election last week, Leila the drag queen scored a big win. Leila, the stage name of a 30-year-old man named Adel, wasn’t ...

Since their rise in the late 1990s, the Taliban and likeminded groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region have launched an aggressive campaign against liberal ways of life, bombing music shops, ...