Friday Times


April 5, 2008 · Khalid Hasan writing for the Friday Times I first came upon Pran Nevile when Saeed Ahmed Khan, a gentleman from Lahore, whom I unfortunately never met but with whom I used to correspond, told me about him. He said the two of them were classmates back […]

Romancing the city of Lahore


Khalid Hasan The year 2004 was the hundredth anniversary of KL Saigalâs birth, but it went unmarked in Pakistan. Some time earlier I had asked music aficionado Saeed Malik in Lahore if he could perhaps get a group together to celebrate the memory of the greatest popular singer of the […]

Saigal, one in a million