Tabeer is the debut album by singer Shafqat Amanat Ali,launched in 2008.^[2]

Overview[link]

After leaving the band Fuzon in 2006, Shafqat concentrated his solo career. Based on Folk and sufi works the album Tabeer was commissioned and released by Music Today the world over in mid September 2008.The album was released by Fire records in Pakistan in September 2008 as their Mega Eid release. The entire album has been recorded, mixed and mastered in Pakistan by Shani (Zeeshan) at "Couple of good studios"...^[3][4][5][6]

Track listing[link]

All lyrics written by Shafqat Amanat Ali except original Sufi Lyrics (Ameer Khusro's Rung le), all music composed by Shafqat Amanat Ali except Naina and Tu hi tu hai.

References[link]

External links[link]

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Shafqat Amanat Ali
Shafqat Amanat Ali during Waves 2010,annual cultural fest of BITS Pilani-Goa
Background information
Born	(1965-02-26) 26 February 1965 (age 47) Lahore, Pakistan
Genres	Rock music, Sufi, playback singing, Classical Music
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2000-till present
Associated acts	Fuzön
Website	www.shafqatamanatali.com

Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan (Urdu: شفقت امانت علی; born 26 February 1965) is a Pakistani classical singer^[1] belonging to Patiala Gharana lineage.^[2] He is the youngest brother of the late Asad Amanat Ali Khan.^[3] He was the lead vocalist of the Pakistani rock band Fuzön. He was awarded the President's Pride of Performance civil award on August 14, 2007.

Early life and background[link]

Shafqat Amanat Ali was born in Lahore to Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, on 26 February 1965 making him the nineth generation of Patiala Gharana. He received his bachelor's degree from Government College University, Lahore (now known as GC University). He received the role of honor from the Music Society of Government College University, Lahore, which is led by Tariq Farani son of UM Saleem Shah.^[4]

He started learning classical music at age four, his grandmother being his first teacher. His main influences in music come from his father and his uncle Bade Fateh Ali Khan.

Career[link]

"Aankhon Ke Saagar," "Khamaj," "Ankhiyan" and "Mitwa" are some of his most popular works. He also sang the songs "Phir Wohi Raastey" and "Allah Megh De" for a Pakistani film named Ramchand Pakistani.^[5]

Shafqat was introduced to Bollywood by Shankar Mahadevan. One morning while driving to his studio, he heard Shafqat's hit song "Aankhon Ke Saagar" on the radio. He immediately called the radio jockey who was his friend and got Shafqat's contact number. Shafqat sang "Mitwa" composed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy for the movie Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.^[6] The song was listed in the top charts in India, helping propel Shafqat into stardom.^[7] He was the voice behind the critically acclaimed song "Yeh Honsla" [sic] in the Bollywood film Dor. He sang background for the films Hello and Mumbai Cutting.^[8][9] His songs "Mora Saiyaan" and "Tere Bina" were featured in Nagesh Kukunoor's Hyderabad Blues 2.

After leaving the band Fuzon in 2006, Shafqat concentrated on his solo career.^[10] Based on folk and Sufi works, the album Tabeer was commissioned and released by Music Today in mid-September 2008.^[11][12][13]

The album was released by Fire Records in Pakistan in September 2008 as their mega Eid release. The entire album has been produced, arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered in Pakistan by Shani Haider (Zeeshan Haider) at "Couple of Good Studios". All songs except "Naina" and "Tu hi tu hai" were composed by Shafqat. Naina was composed by Shani Haider.

The first video of the premier song of the album, "Khairheyan De Naal", was aired on all channels in India and Pakistan.^{[citation needed]} He has fondly been nicknamed the "Rock star Ustad" by Saleem Merchant of the Saleem-Suleman duo.^[14] He also appeared on the Rubaroo episode of Indian Idol 4.^[15] He released his second solo album Kyun Dooriyan in 2010. It included a couple of songs — "Kaga Ja" and "Naal Naal" — which he had written during his time with Fuzon.^[16]

His vocals in the song "Dildaara" from the movie Ra.One fetched him a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for 2012.Recently he sang "Tu Hi Mera" for the 2012 movie Jannat starring Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta.^[17]

Discography[link]

Movies[link]

Collaborations[link]

Albums[link]

Coke Studio(Pakistan)[link]

Season 2[link]

Coke Studio(India)[link]

Season 1[link]

Awards and Nomination[link]

Following are the awards and nominations for Shafqat Amanat Ali.

• Filmfare Awards
  • 2012 - Nominated - Best Male Playback Singer - Dildaara - Ra.One
  • 2011 - Nominated - Best Male Playback Singer - Bin Tere - I Hate Luv Storys.^[22]

• International Indian Film Academy Awards
  • 2011 - Nominated - Bin Tere - I Hate Luv Storys^[23][24]

• GIMA
  • 2011 - Nominated - Bin Tere - I Hate Luv Storys .^[25]

• GIFA Best Playback Singer Male Awards
  • 2011 - Nominated - Mitwa Revisited - Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna^[26]

• Zee Cine Awards
  • 2012 - Nominated -Best Playback Singer Male - Dildaara - Ra.One^[27]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Shafqat Amanat Ali's artist profil on Danka
• Shafqat Amanat Ali at the Internet Movie Database
• Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan's Album Tabeer
• Filmfare Nominees and Winners
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Bulleh Shah
An artistic depiction of Bulleh Shah
Spiritual Poet
Born	1680 C.E. Uch, Punjab
Died	1757 C.E. Kasur, Punjab
Honored in	Islam
Influences	Shah Hussain, Sultan Bahu, Shah Sharaf
Influenced	Countless Indian Sufi poets
Tradition/Genre	Kafi

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Bulleh Shah (1680–1757) (Punjabi: بلہے شاہ, ਬੁੱਲ੍ਹੇ ਸ਼ਾਹ, Hindi: बुल्ले शाह) was a Punjabi Sufi poet, humanist and philosopher. His full name was Abdullah Shah^[1]

Early life[link]

Bulleh Shah is believed to have been born in 1680, in the small village of Uch, Bahawalpur, Punjab, in present day Pakistan.^[2] His father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was a teacher and preacher in a village mosque. Little is known about Bulleh Shah's ancestry except that some of his forebears were migrants from Uzbekistan,^[3] and that his family claimed direct descent from Muhammad.^[1]

When he was six months old, his parents relocated to Malakwal. His father later got a job in Pandoke, about 50 miles southeast of Kasur. Bulleh Shah received his early schooling in Pandoke and moved to Kasur for higher education. He also received education from Maulana Mohiyuddin. His spiritual teacher was the Qadiri Sufi Shah Inayat Qadiri, who was a member of the Arain tribe of Lahore.

Life[link]

A large amount of what is believed to be known about Bulleh Shah comes through legends, and is subjective; to the point that there isn’t even agreement among historians concerning his precise date and place of birth. Some "facts" about his life have been pieced together from his own writings. Other "facts" seem to have been passed down through oral traditions.

Bulleh Shah practiced the Sufi tradition of Punjabi poetry established by poets like Shah Hussain (1538–1599), Sultan Bahu (1629–1691), and Shah Sharaf (1640–1724).

Bulleh Shah lived in the same period as the Sindhi Sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhatai (1689–1752). His lifespan also overlapped with the Punjabi poet Waris Shah (1722–1798), of Heer Ranjha fame, and the Sindhi Sufi poet Abdul Wahab (1739–1829), better known by his pen-name, Sachal Sarmast (“truth seeking leader of the intoxicated ones”). Amongst Urdu poets, Bulleh Shah lived 400 miles away from Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810) of Agra.

Poetry Style[link]

The verse form Bulleh Shah primarily employed is called the Kafi, a style of Punjabi, Sindhi and Saraiki poetry used not only by the Sufis of Sindh and Punjab, but also by Sikh gurus.

Bulleh Shah’s poetry and philosophy strongly criticizes the Islamic religious orthodoxy of his day.^{[citation needed]}

A Beacon of Peace[link]

Bulleh Shah's time was marked with communal strife between Muslims and Sikhs. But in that age Baba Bulleh Shah was a beacon of hope and peace for the citizens of Punjab. While Bulleh Shah was in Pandoke, Muslims killed a young Sikh man who was riding through their village in retaliation for murder of some Muslims by Sikhs. Baba Bulleh Shah denounced the murder of an innocent Sikh and was censured by the mullas and muftis of Pandoke. Bulleh Shah maintained that violence was not the answer to violence. Bulleh Shah also hailed the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur as a Ghazi, or "religious warrior", which caused controversy among Muslims of that time.^{[citation needed]}

Humanist[link]

Bulleh Shah’s writings represent him as a humanist, someone providing solutions to the sociological problems of the world around him as he lives through it, describing the turbulence his motherland of Punjab is passing through, while concurrently searching for God. His poetry highlights his mystical spiritual voyage through the four stages of Sufism: Shariat (Path), Tariqat (Observance), Haqiqat (Truth) and Marfat (Union). The simplicity with which Bulleh Shah has been able to address the complex fundamental issues of life and humanity is a large part of his appeal. Thus, many people have put his kafis to music, from humble street-singers to renowned Sufi singers like the Waddali Brothers, Sain Zahoor, Abida Parveen and Pathanay Khan, from the synthesized techno qawwali remixes of UK-based Asian artists to the rock band Junoon.

Modern renderings[link]

In the 1990s Junoon, a rock band from Pakistan, rendered "Bullah Ki Jaana" and "Aleph" ("Ilmon Bas Kareen O Yaar"). In 2004, Rabbi Shergill turned the abstruse metaphysical poem "Bullah Ki Jaana" into a Rock/Fusion song that became popular in India and Pakistan.^[4][5] The Wadali Bandhu, a Punjabi Sufi group from India, have also released a version of "Bullah Ki Jaana" on their album Aa Mil Yaar... Call of the Beloved. Another version was performed by Lakhwinder Wadali and entitled Bullah.

Bulleh Shah's verses have also been adapted and used in Bollywood film songs including "Chaiyya Chaiyya" and "Thayya Thayya" in the 1998 film Dil Se.., and "Ranjha Ranjha" in the 2010 film Raavan. The 2007 Pakistani movie Khuda Kay Liye includes Bulleh Shah's poetry in the song "Bandeya Ho". The 2008 film A Wednesday, included a song titled "Bulle Shah, O Yaar Mere". In 2009 the first episode of the second season of Pakistan's Coke Studio featured a collaboration between Sain Zahoor and Noori, "Aik Alif" while, in June 2010, episode one of the third series featured "Na Raindee Hai" and "Makke Gayaan Gal Mukdi Nahi", performed by Arieb Azhar.

Death[link]

He died in 1757. His tomb is located in Kasur, present day Pakistan.^[6]

Further reading[link]

• Bulleh Shah: the love-intoxicated iconoclast, by J. R. Puri, Tilaka Raj Shangri. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986
• Great Sufi Poets of The Punjab, by R. M. Chopra, Iran Society, Kolkata, 1999.

See also[link]

• Geeta Vadhera's "Shah Shabad" series - paintings based on the poems of Bulleh Shah
• Kasur, the hometown of Bulleh Shah
• List of Punjabi language poets
• Sufism

Works online[link]

• Bulleh Shah poetry
• Articles on Bulleh Shah's life and poetry (apna.org)
• Bulleh Shah: Poems (English translations) and Biography (poetry-chaikhana.com)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Short biography of Bulleh Shah
• Biography of Bulleh Shah
• Littérateurs of the Punjabi language
• Complete poetry of Bulleh Shah in Shahmukhi

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Hazrat Ali bin
Born	Ali 1964 Kabul, Afghanistan
Residence	Jalalabad
Nationality	Afghan
Occupation	Warlord, Politician
Home town	Kashmond, Alingar district, Laghman Province.
Height	8 ft
Weight	90 kg
Political party	Northern Alliance
Religion	Islam

Hajji Hazrat Ali bin Bahawal Sheir is a Politician in Afghanistan.^[1] He previously served as a military commander for the Northern Alliance in eastern Afghanistan.^[2]

Biography[link]

Ali was born in 1964 in Kabul to an ethnic Pashai^{[citation needed]} family. He rose to prominence during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. As a commander for Hezb-e Islami Khalis he quickly became an important leader for the Pashai community. Hazrat Ali has also been described as an Afghan Army commander under the Soviet puppet regime.^[3] He fled Afghanistan to live in Mashad, Iran, where he is believed to have married an Iranian women.^[4]

During the war against the Taliban, Ali is said to have been aligned with Ahmad Shah Massoud. Following the fall of the Taliban Ali joined with two other leaders in the Jalalabad-Tora Bora region, Abdul Qadir and Mohammed Zaman to set up the Eastern Shura, a local provisional government.^[2] They were early backers of the first post-Taliban President Hamid Karzai.

The Asia Times reports that, after the fall of the Taliban, Ali's troops executed hundreds of captured Arab prisoners with the complicity of U.S. special forces.^[5]

During late 2001 and early 2002 it was US policy to employ very few US ground troops, and to rely on air power and local allies, like Hazrat Ali to defeat al Qaeda.^[6][7][8][9] The Asia Times reports that Ali was one of the warlords who allowed Bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora.^[10]

"By the time the merciless American B-52 bombing raids were about to begin, bin Laden had already left Tora Bora - as a number of Afghan mujahideen confirmed to Asia Times Online at the time. They said they had seen him on the other side of the frontline in late November. Hazrat Ali, the warlord and then so-called minister of "law and order" in the Eastern Shura (traditional decision-making council) in Afghanistan, was outsourced by the Pentagon to go after bin Laden and al-Qaeda in Tora Bora. He bagged a handful of suitcases full of cash. He put on a show for the cameras. And significantly, he was barely in touch with the few Special Forces on the ground."

The Pak Tribune described Ali as a "gangster" during the 2004 Afghan Presidential election.^[11]

Hamid Karzai appointed Hazrat Ali as the Jalalabad police chief 2003 and was sacked on 2004 due to connection with Taliban and some other militant groups. He got a seat in the Wolesi Jirga of the National Assembly of Afghanistan in the 2005 Afghan parliamentary election, representing Nangarhar Province.^[3][11] In May 2012, it was reported that Iran was providing millions of dollars to Ali for the purpose of blocking the National Assembly's approval of the Afghan-US strategic cooperation agreement.^[1] However, the next day the agreement was approved by the majority and the following day Ali denied the allegations.^[4]

Guantanamo detainees who served under Hazrat Ali[link]

Guantanamo detainee Anwar Khan told his Administrative Review Board that he had fought against the Taliban, under the over-all command of Hazrat Ali.^[12] He claimed he had been arrested, and sent to Guantanamo when he was stopped at an American checkpoint and the soldiers were confused as to why he was carrying multiple ID cards.

Guantanamo detainee Awal Gul had worked, reluctantly, for the Taliban, in administrative positions.^[13] He told his Tribunal of making multiple attempts to resign from the positions the Taliban had appointed him to. When the Taliban started to fall he took his chance and enlisted in Hazrat Ali's forces. However, a few months later, Ali forced him to surrender himself to American forces.

References[link]