“Let’s throw the truth away / We’ll find it in this kiss,” sang Bruce Springsteen in his 2002 song “Worlds Apart.” The line sounds Sufi enough to have come from Khayyam, Rumi, or Hafiz. Even more so ...

Some forms of cultural expression defy the need for translation. So it is for the traditional South Asian music qawwali, according to its fans and adherents. Most commonly played at Sufi shrines in ...

Former skipper Imran Khan today blamed President Asif Ali Zardari for the present mess and problems in Pakistan cricket. "The ...

On Saturday night, Pakistani singer Asif Ali Khan and his group brought qawwali— a form of Sufi devotional music that has been in existence for more than 700 years, and that remains prevalent today in ...