Enthusiasts of Sufi music uphold Abida Parveen's 10-minute-long rendition Nara-e-Mastana as among the most cherished numbers of the genre. Almost a decade after it hit playlists of music aficionados, ...
This could only have worked because it was Abida Parveen herself re-doing her own rendition of Wasif Ali Wasif’s Nara-i-Mastana [The Call of the Devoted]. Growing up in Karachi, I was first introduced ...