Many of the foods people around the world traditionally eat for luck to ring in the New Year are also good for you. Here are 6 lucky foods worth including at your gathering for a year of prosperity and good health!

Greens
Supposedly greens are eaten on New Year’s Eve because they resemble money. They are also teeming with vitamins and minerals so eat up!
Beans
Beans, like greens, resemble money. More specifically, they symbolize coins.

With Junoon’s 20th anniversary on its way, several local and young artists have been invited to revamp the band’s songs for an exclusive 20th Anniversary Album. The upcoming album will be an opportunity for rising artists to flaunt their signature styles globally through Junoon’s platform. Salman Ahmad, Junoon’s stalwart guitarist, researched and then contacted bands and artists through email encouraging them to contribute to the album.
Back in the 90s, Junoon was the voice of a generation that brought several musical innovations and provided rock anthems which eventually received international recognition. …

Renowned qawwal Maqbool Ahmed Sabri died of a heart attack on Wednesday in Cape Town, South Africa.
He was 60 and had been under treatment in South Africa for two months and was also suffering from diabetes. He leaves behind his widow, three daughters and a son.
Born in 1941 to a lower-income class family in Kalyana, India, Sabri migrated to Karachi with his family and settled in Liaquatabad. He received his qawwali and music training at an early age and recorded his first qawwali at the age of 17 in 1958 …

The exhibition of Sadia Hyat Khan’s ‘spiritually charged’ bags inscribed with sufi message was inaugurated at Nomad Gallery on Sunday.
“The bags are mostly made of cotton and linen. Sadia’s work is inspired by Bulleh Shah’s verses. The bags also have the evil eye on them,” commented Nomad Gallery Director Nageen Hyat.
The bags in earth tones of beige with inscriptions, designs and calligraphy dangled from bamboo shoots fixed onto the gallery’s ceiling. There is a sense of spiritual cohesiveness to the exhibition, as the bags are displayed alongside Shafique Farooqi’s paintings …

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 arts and culture in India. Currently, the countries being represented include Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Myanmar, India and Sri Lanka. The expected number of people in attendance each night at the festival is anywhere …

Internationally acclaimed Pakistani folk singer, Abida Parveen suffered from a heart attack while performing at a musical event in Lahore on Saturday evening.
She was shifted to a private hospital, where doctors performed angioplasty on her. Doctors say the next 24 hours will be crucial, but she is out of danger and is recovering in the Intensive Care Unit.
Abida Parveen is mostly known for singing Sufi poetry but has also made spectacular performances of many contemporary poets of Pakistan.
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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 and to spread that message across is what I am busy doing,” Abida, 56, told IANS in a telephonic interview from Lahore.
“It’s a time-consuming thing to spread the message of Sufism and that is …

Listening to Pakistani Sufi singer Abida Parveen has often been described as a divine experience, but the singer says she often hopes that rulers in India and Pakistan would listen more carefully to her message of peace.
“In Sufism, there is only peace,” Parveen said. “I have always believed that music and the arts is the best way to achieve peace.
“When I sing, I sing of peace, of harmony and culture.” Often called the heir to the legendary Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Parveen is today perhaps the world’s most renowned …

A Pakistani cultural troupe is slated to present a play in Jammu and Kashmir next week on Baba Bulleh Shah, a 17th century Sufi saint who was revered by both Hindus and Muslims in his time.
The troupe of 20 artistes, comprising qawwals and actors of the Pakistani group Ajok, will give a performance in Jammu on Jan 27 and 28.
Jammu is preparing in a big way to receive the artistes with theatres fully booked.
The group, which has won acclaim for its play “Ek Thee Nani”, is led by two well …

Currently the biggest band in Pakistani pop Faisal and Bilal – the band duo – at churning out good music.
That’s what the music of the Pakistani band Strings is all about
Currently the biggest band in Pakistani pop, Strings has had a tumultuous history of disbanding and then reuniting. What hasn’t changed is the consistency of Faisal and Bilal — the band duo — at churning out good music.
“Music happened as a hobby, not a profession. We first met in college in Karachi. After producing two successful albums, we disbanded to …