Stories by Zahra Salah Uddin
Zahra Salah Uddin is film-major turned journalist who believes one day music will save the world.
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A chef, an artist, an anthropologist and a photographer travel to Swat Valley and return with a zine — and a case that Pakistan
Published 19 Mar, 2026 07:05am
Updated 27 Mar, 2025 02:53pm
“It’s funny, apart from Karachi, Ustad has not been officially invited to play shows in even Islamabad or Lahore, yet here we are in Europe, set to play 25 shows,” said the manager, Daniyal.
Updated 13 Sep, 2023 02:47pm
Online Urdu radio channels in Germany help connect Pakistani immigrants to their roots
Published 24 Apr, 2020 11:26am
It all started when Shabz had gone to a desi restaurant where she got a tortilla when she asked for a roti.
Published 17 Sep, 2019 11:44am
Taurees Habib talks about working with Oscar-winning producer Hans Zimmer and finding time to make his own music
Published 17 Aug, 2016 03:07pm
How a Pakistani heavy metal band survived against the odds
Updated 20 Jan, 2016 04:45pm
'Pakistan main toh ab music nahi banta yaar'. Think again!
Published 14 Dec, 2015 11:24am
The I Am Karachi Music Festival this year was not like your ordinary go-to weekend event.
Updated 14 Aug, 2015 01:08pm
"To have experiences like RBMA helps us musicians grow," he says
Updated 01 Jul, 2015 06:05pm
Lets go beyond fake patriotism, urged Noori as the band celebrated its latest music video 'Aik Tha Badshah' in Karachi
Updated 16 Jun, 2015 11:02am
New York City had Hilly Kristal and CBGB, Karachi had Sabeen Mahmud and T2F.
Updated 02 May, 2015 06:01pm
When a country’s leadership feels threatened by opinion and humour, isn’t it clear where the problem lies?
Updated 21 Apr, 2015 12:37pm
Indie-electronic label FXS's album launch failed to draw a large crowd or sell most of the CDs available. We ask why.
Published 15 Apr, 2015 12:42pm
Omran Shafique, Sara Haider, Ali Suhail and Haamid Rahim (Dynoman) are looking forward to people taking music seriously
Published 03 Apr, 2015 02:14pm
It is purely love for music that keeps them going – no sales, no audiences and certainly no record label prospects.
Updated 27 Mar, 2015 07:06pm
Good news: the band's new vocalist can actually sing. Bad news: the song has a generic, appeal-to-the-masses sound
Updated 26 Mar, 2015 04:23pm
Our performance at music fest SXSW in Texas is possible by US State Department funding, not Pakistani funding, he says
Updated 19 Mar, 2015 06:35pm
Lahore-based Poor Rich Boy plays at Texas music festival SXSW today, says nobody really cares about the arts in Pakistan
Updated 17 Mar, 2015 05:45pm
Music-streaming site Patari is your desi-fied Soundcloud. Here, its founders dish about the start-up
Updated 12 Mar, 2015 11:26pm
