Aks – yet another superb album from Lucky Ali

Ghazal is originally the Persian form of poetry and was originated in Iran in 10th century A.D. It grew from the Persian Qasida (meaning songs of praise), which was a panegyric written in praise of the emperor or his noblemen to later deal with the whole spectrum of human experience; though its central concern is love.  Ghazal is an Arabic word, which literally means ‘talking to a woman’. Since woman is most poets’ muse and the topic of conversation is love, love with its complexity of emotions, notwithstanding the plaintive …

In 2003, BBC World Service conducted an international poll to choose ten most famous songs of all time to mark the 70th anniversary of the BBC World Service. According to BBC, people from 155 countries/islands voted, around 7000 songs were selected and almost 150,000 votes were cast. The song “Dil Dil Pakistan” was third in top 10 songs. The second song on this list was India’s National song – “Vande Matram”. As a result, for some “Dil Dil Pakistan” was equivalent to the National song of Pakistan.
Recorded as a single …

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