Pak Spice

By admin • September 3rd, 2010

Guns N’ Roses and Faraz Anwar were supposed to work on the project “The Dreamer Awakes“, says Pakistan’s master of progressive rock himself. The peace through music project which is now in the hands of Atif Aslam was supposed to be in Faraz’ hands. He was completely furious about the project he started as he [...]

By Hani Taha Salim Lahore Whenever a catastrophe has hit the country, the first people to come out on the front line of crisis management are the civil society, of which celebrities have played a crucial role. Whether it’s the solo performance of Madam Noor Jehan at the battle front in the 1975 war to [...]

The second video from Karavan’s latest album Saara Jahan has little in common with the song, making for a very confusing watch Manal Faheem Khan Karachi Four minutes and a bad mood later, the viewer is just as confused as the director must have been when he tried to accumulate all his interesting artistic thoughts [...]

“One fifth of Pakistan is underwater, thousands of people died in the initial flooding and the threat of disease now looms for 20 million affected people.” These are the words of Angelina Jolie, UN Goodwill Ambassador, actress and full-time philanthropist. Angelina Jolie, who has donated $ 100,000 to UNHCR for flood relief work in Pakistan, [...]

Even if the Pakistani team is proven not guilty, which seems very unlikely at the moment, we all know that they all are a bunch of shady people who play only for themselves. Their punishment should be exemplary. In spite of losing, God knows how many matches in a row, they get half a million [...]

Having sold close to 30,000 copies of his debut album “Chapter One: The Prince Who Would Be King” and thousands of mixtapes before it, Kamran Rasheed Khan known as Lazarus has made himself an icon in the underground hip hop scene of today and continues to grow in the streets and throughout the internet. MTV [...]

After Supreme Court order to PEMRA almost all Indian channels banned including start plus, star one & Sony TV. According to cable operator’s statement they disconnected all channels according to Supreme Court order. Cable operators also said that they also impede some Pakistani channels. We don’t know about what Pakistani channels they are talking about [...]

Time: September 18 at 9:00pm – September 19 at 6:00am Location: CARNIVOR GROUNDS, NAIROBI, KENYA ARE YOU READY TO ROCK! CONCERT AND AFTER PARTY ALL NIGHT LONG!! The sensational Atif Aslam is amongst the most hip and happening performer-singers in the music industry today. With boyish good looks, a sonorous yet soulful style of singing [...]

Shahzeb Shaikh Karachi INSTEP TODAY, Karachi As if being a huge success in Pakistan, India and desi communities across the world weren’t enough, Atif recently touched another milestone by collaborating with popular American rock band, Guns N’ Roses, a gig he landed through Todd Shea, who has been a fan since he heard Atif sing [...]

The Noori brothers announced (via vBlog #10), that they are shifting focus from promoting their upcoming album to promoting relief activities for Pakistan Floods  2010.  While they finalize the workings of a noori campaign, the brothers join hands with Celebrity Camp to help raise funds and relief items for the flood affected. Join Celebrity Camp [...]

The music of the film “Chup” has been done by Zeb & Haniya says film actor, Shaan in an interview with Instep Today. When asked about his future projects, Shaan said that he will be starting his first film in December this year. It’s called Chup, a minglish (Urdu English) film and the music of [...]

Ali Zafar says that he has not signed a film with Yash Raj Films yet and the announcement, if it came from the production house, is premature, in an interview with the Indian Journalist, Subhash K. Jha. Ali Zafar, currently busy putting together charity concerts for flood victims in Pakistan, is taken aback to hear [...]

It is being rumoured that the Pakistani pop star Atif Aslam is suffering from throat cancer or Atif Aslam dead. The rumours started making the rounds out of nowhere. Brother of Atif, Shahzad Aslam was disheartened by the shocking rumours and informed the media that he is alive and perfectly fine and is not suffereing [...]

This is the song which Atif Aslam sings in DAWN News interview in the show called “Ak Nazar Atif Aslam” Lyrics: Zindagi ke safar main guzar jaatay hain jo makan wo phir nahi aatay wo phir nhe aatay phool khiltay hain log miltay hain phool khiltay hain log miltay hain yunhi patt jarh main jo [...]

After his impressive debut in Tere Bin Laden the Pakistani sensation Ali Zafar is suddenly hot and happening in Bollywood. The actor has caught the fancy of none other than Aditya Chopra who has signed him for one of YRF’s forthcoming projects. The film is a romantic comedy staring Imran Khan and Katrina Kaif and [...]

Atif Aslam Punjabi track with Ex Guns n Roses, Velvet Revolver (Pakistan America Project Glimpses) Glimpse of flood relief efforts between Lanny, Atif Aslam & Todd Shea Read All About Pakistan America Peace Through Music Project: http://www.tvmasty.com/details-about-the-atif-aslam-guns-n-roses-peace-project/

By Ali Zafar I have landed in Pakistan, a country surrounded by serenity, seduced by a sincere sense of security. People of various sects, religion and race walking hand in hand, ignorant of imparity, in a place once hard to maintain sanity. They say there was a time when poor bled in despair while the [...]

Atif Aslam’s Message: Dear fans ~ Hope u r thinking about the contribution towards the flood victims and doing the best u can. My advice ~ ……. Please go by yourself , send ur relatives , friends or anyone and have a look at what is this NATION going through as sitting at home and [...]

Dear fans we are all aware of the fact these days a rumour is being spread by certain media that ATIF ASLAM is suffering from throat cancer or he broke his back & he has very less time of life left. Being a muslim it’s our belief that no one knows when one is going [...]

On Saturday, we covered a story mentioning how Atif Aslam’s management claimed rights on unofficial fan pages and shifted the fans to the official fan page which now has over 250,000 fans. And the result? Atif’s official page is the the 4th most explosive page on Facebook which means page with 4th highest fan activity [...]

JAMALI IN ASSOCIATION WITH DOLLY DOSSA & DSPTV PRESENTS AWAMI MELA 2010 Time: Sunday at 12:00pm – August 9 at 1:00am Location: MARKHAM FAIRGROUNDS TORONTO CANADA Atif Aslam Live Concert Photos In Markham ,Toronto Canada on 8th August 2010 Official Shots Clicked by “Nice Productions”

“For me Sufi means a search, a longing, an acceptance of what it means to be human, to be alive.” –Arieb Azhar Instep Today: How did the opportunity to work on Coke Studio season 3 come about? What was your reaction? Arieb Azhar: After having been part of Coke Studio season 2, I was looking [...]

JAMALI IN ASSOCIATION WITH DOLLY DOSSA & DSPTV PRESENTS AWAMI MELA 2010 Time: Sunday at 12:00pm – August 9 at 1:00am Location: MARKHAM FAIRGROUNDS TORONTO CANADA Atif Aslam Live Concert Video In Markham ,Toronto Canada on 8th August 2010

BIRMINGHAM: A middle-aged man hurled shoe at President Asif Ali Zardari when the later arrived to address a party conference here in International Convention Center. Play Asif Ali Zardari Game….! Hit a Shoes Throw the shoe at Asif Ali Zardari – see how many times you can hit him! Source: decentsms.com/zardari.html

“As my personal story bears witness: In the long run the guitar is more powerful than the gun and arts and culture will  always be mightier than the sword. The whisper in the heart has strength, it may not have wings but it has the power to fly,” says Salman Ahmad of Junoon in his [...]

With the Passage of time ” illegalship ” is getting fame day by day . And the most targeted people in music scene are the record label companies & musicians . From past few decades there were many statements up in the air from record companies & musicians that their products are illegally published . [...]

Strings, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, Call Band are just some of the many artists who have ventured across  the border. The latest singer to join the Bollywood chalo brigade is Shehzad Roy. The film is the newly released Khatta Meetha featuring Akshay Kumar in the lead. And the song is ‘Bull****’ [...]

Time: Sunday at 12:00pm – August 9 at 1:00am Location: MARKHAM FAIRGROUNDS TORONTO CANADA JAMALI IN ASSOCIATION WITH DOLLY DOSSA & DSPTV PRESENTS AWAMI MELA 2010 FEATURING … PAKISTANs TOP PLAYBACK SINGER “ATIF ASLAM” ALONG WITH “SA RE GA MA PA” SENSATION “AMANAT ALI” OPENING ACT “KAESTRO” EARLY BID = $ 15 DOOR PRICE = [...]

Amar Ayaz Instep Today: How did the opportunity to work on Coke Studio season 3 come about? What was your reaction? Abida Parveen: I was very happy when Rohail Hyatt invited me to perform at Coke Studio this year. I felt it was an opportunity that would let me experiment with my music and spread [...]

So, Coke Studio has finally ended and there has been a lot of criticism about the content produced in the third season  of it. In my opinion, a lot of that is because of the experimentation that has been put into this season. This height of experimentation has resulted in mixed responses by the audiences [...]

Rough, grungy jam sessions are always a pleasure. And when the playing bill includes Ali Azmat, it always makes it  worthwhile for purely musical reasons. His last two records, Social Circus and Klashinfolk, stand musically tall, despite his recent interests such as Zaid Hamid and Iqbal Ka Pakistan. It’s not the persona or the conspiracy [...]

A police complaint has been filed against Rahat Fateh Ali Khan in India by the organizers of a concert which he couldn’t mke  it to because of a visa problem. According to Times of India, the organizers Trzy Event claim that they paid 27 lakh rupees to the singer for the show and had already [...]

Ali Zafar‘s new comedy flick, Tere Bin Laden is a success. The fate of TBL is unclear as far as a Pakistani release is concerned. It’s been banned because authorities fear it could stir something up. Or something like that. Then again, anything can stir things in Pakistan. “They think somebody might do something,” the [...]

Atif Aslam & Todd Shea with Ustad Fateh Ali for Pakistan America Peace Through Music Project [via Xain Malik]