Explained: Who is Arooj Aftab, the first Pakistani woman to win a Grammy - The Indian Express

Aftab is the "first ever female Pakistani GRAMMY winner", the Academy posted on its official Instagram page. Aftab released her debut album titled 'Bird Under Water' in 2014 under her own independent label.

A ghazal by the poet Hafeez Hoshiyarpuri, which he recited in Lahore’s Government College (now Government College University) with the poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz in attendance in 1929, won Brooklyn-based A… [+4844 chars]

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