Although Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s troubles with Indian law-enforcement authorities may have abated as a result of the impulse to protect the nascent thaw in India-Pakistan relations, his earnings from his concerts in India might amount to nothing.On the sidelines of a book launch function, Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai said that after Rahat appears [...]

Playback singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, whose detention at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi international airport on Sunday stirred a diplomatic row between India and Pakistan, was released late on Monday. His passport, however, has been impounded and he has been asked to appear before the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Thursday. Khan, 37, was [...]

Pakistani actress Veena Malik was “happily engaged” when she stepped into the Bigg Boss house, but the recently evicted contestant from the TV show, who raised eyebrows for pretending to be “single” all along, now says that she had to call off her engagement just before starting to shoot the show. “My ex-fiance, Faisal Akbar [...]

Rubbishing media reports that 8 flats and five parking lots owned by him have been confiscated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Pakistani singer Adnan Sami said, “There is a misunderstanding that my flats have been confiscated physically. If it was so, you wouldn’t have been sitting here.” Sami was addressing the media at his 13th [...]

The Enforcement Directorate in India on Monday confiscated eight properties and five parking spaces belonging to singer Adnan Sami under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.

According to Indian law, a foreign national cannot acquire immovable property in India (other than on lease, not exceeding five years).

The Times of India reports that the singer had acquired eight properties, in 2003, totaling 25 million Indian rupees in a housing society in Andheri, Maharashtra. The properties now belong to the Indian government.

The Enforcement Directorate has also imposed a fine of 2 million Indian rupees on the singer.

After being in news for her profound closeness with the male contestant Ashmit Patel in the ‘Bigg Boss’ house, Pakistani actress Veena Malik had recently revealed in an interview following last week’s eviction that Ashmit was a sweetheart and buddy and that there was nothing more than that between them. “As for Ash-mit, he’s a [...]

Invited to New Delhi by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Mekaal Hasan and his band members will headline at the South Asian Bands Festival on December 12. The two-day, free event in New Delhi is a collaboration between the ICCR, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and Seher, an organisation that promotes the [...]

She has immersed herself in Sufi music and is busy spreading Sufism with her singing. So Bollywood offers can wait, says noted Pakistani singer Abida Parveen. “I keep on getting offers. Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai and many others have offered to me to sing in their films. But I have immersed myself in Sufi music [...]

Makkah Colony resident Lailatul Kubra submitted a petition that Rahat Fateh Ali Khan had recorded a song, Aj Din Charhia Teray Rang Warga for an Indian film, Love Aaj Kal. In the song, the petitioner said, Khan uttered improper words about God that hurt her religious sentiments as well as those of other Muslims. She [...]

Pakistani contestant Ali Saleem, better known as Begum Nawazish Ali, was evicted from the popular reality show Bigg Boss 4 in the episode aired on Friday after he received the lowest votes. Saleem, who was fondly referred to as Begum in the Bigg Boss 4 house, is one of the two Pakistani contestants against whom [...]