Some years ago, I was traveling across Afghanistan when the Afghans in the car said we had to stop to buy some music. They said I could not understand Afghanistan unless I heard Ahmad Zahir. Zahir is ...

The late Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir once sang, “When a name becomes immortal, its death is never easy.” His words proved prophetic. Nearly four decades after his suspicious death at age 33, Zahir ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — It was the first day of class at the Ahmad Zahir Singing Course, and Samir Najibullah arrived looking like a young rock star. His wavy hair was slicked back, and he wore a ...

Egyptian director Shireen Qasem is gearing up to shoot the historical series al Zaher Baibers scripted by the late writer Taha Shalabi and costarring Ahmed Maher, Dalal Abdel Aziz, Hadi al Gayyar and ...

children from his three marriages, one named Shabnam and the other named Ahmad Rashad, both of whom living in the United States. On June 14, 1979, this well-known Afghan singer died in a traffic ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Sporting a black quiff and sideburns, Ahmad Zahir sang of love and heartbreak in liberal 1970s Kabul — a city now plagued by war and suffering, but where the popularity of ...

Ahmed Zaher graduated from the Faculty of Commerce before receiving a bachelors degree from the Higher Institute for Theatrical Arts. His television works include “Al Ragol al Akhir” (The Last Man), ...

AFTER the death in 1979 of Afghanistan's pop legend, Ahmed Zahir, Kabul police found hundreds of pairs of women's knickers in his house; or so claimed a gang of braggarts in Kabul's swollen main ...

Media outlets in the Maldives have raised nearly $2 million to help Gaza residents affected by massive destruction caused in the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas, a fundraising organiser said on ...