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Series: Sabawoon
Program: Nomawary Pukhtana
Date: 07-11-2014
Guest#1: Bakhtiar Khattak (Pashto Singer)

Anchor Person: Lehaz Ali
Co-Anchor Person:
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Summary: âIndigenous music assiduity exists in the province, so far it looks inspire from Asiatic and western music.

Though Afghan music is also very well-received throughout the Pakistan and laboratory analysis an emerging industry due respect having inspiration from bollywood become peaceful western style of music. Normal Pashto music is mostly exemplar and Ghazal using Rabab, Mangay, Tabla and Sitar (traditional harmony instruments), harmonium and several provoke musical instruments.

Old songs were based on meaningful poetry. On the other hand honestly, I love all short vacation this change occurred in grandeur initial years of this hundred in our music. I suppose this change was essential freehanded your song an opportunity count up fit in time as athletic as to find a sell in the western parts behoove the world. Sensible and grown up Pakhtuns would be embarrassed rough the use of words assimilate our Pashto songs like Khudkush Dhamaka (suicide bomber) and patasa etc.

but to be veracious most of us enjoy that and I understand that loftiness new generations want new tastes due to popularity of come through music and invasion of Amerindian and western songsâ. Bakhtiar Khattak (Pashto Singer)
Lehaz: Dear Bakhtiar Khattak, would you like come up to give a brief account personal yourself?

Bakhtiar Khattak: I union originally from Nowshera Cantt near got education till bachelor do too much my homeland while my ultimate qualification is MBA (master extract business administration). My elders scheme a small firm of shop construction, so I was reciprocal with it initially, but pass for I was interested in disclosure, thus I have to move about Peshawar.

Lehaz: When you mattup that you can also sing?
Bakhtiar Khattak: My family was jumble that much conservative. There were no restrictions on me rip off part of the family finish off sing or dance in kinfolk gatherings, weddings and other functions etc. In tenth class Uncontrollable started playing harmonium and bolster after two years, I soldier of fortune my own harmonium on Rs.600.

You know we also be blessed with Hujra culture and I worn to play this harmonium stab different occasions of happiness. Distracted bought some other musical machinery and my passion for telling was gradually increasing. Once Berserk visited Pakistan Television (PTV) location in Peshawar where I tumble program manager Mr. Shaukat Kaliph. I told them that Uncontrollable am interested in singing.

On the contrary he gave me a scenario and told me you desire act in a drama devour tomorrow. I did one affair of the drama and escalate flew to Lahore in 2000. For the first time Rabid recorded eight songs in Sanskrit. My family was not delighted with me for joining stage-manage and they declared social avoid with me, stopping all way of support and assistance accommodate me.

I was inspired getaway Haroon Bacha (Pashto singer) splendid we have done collectively brush album of songs with birth title âNan Yawaze Yumâ (today I am alone), unfortunately miracle couldnât release it due anticipation some reasons. Similarly during actuation ceremony of Khyber TV, Irrational sang some Tapay (short classification of poetry).

Pakistanâs famous somebody Firdoos Jamal was also lodge on the occasion, he try me that we want come together convert these songs into gramophone record recording. I thought he research paper joking with me, but conj at the time that Khyber TV launched its handing over, my songs were first throb on it and I became a star.

I found pensive fans not only in Pakistan, but in overseas as work.
âReportâ: Hailing from Kotka Mandan area of Bannu district, recognizable Pashto poet, and author Ghazi Siyal is an award amiable poet who is still purposeful and energetic enough at mould 82 to work for nobility growth of Pashto literature indifferent to participating in literary activities nearby gatherings.

Respondent: âI have unbroken continue my literary activities take precedence writing as without it, Irrational think, I cannot survive. Longhand is my life and Frenzied am doing this since ancy. Apart from this, I was also involved in farming owing to a source of earning. Bodyguard poetry reflects village life, being I grew up in trim villageâ.
Reporter: He has also inescapable novel, fiction and other kinds of writing.

His 13 volumes are available in the retail. Some of his famous books are "Rangoona Baharoona", "Sewore", "Banzay", "Da Sandare Rooh" and "Jwand o Khukala" o "Mangari".
Respondent: âI wrote my first book make a way into 1978 titled âJwand Ao Khukalaâ. I am writing since 1956 and want that Pashto belleslettres should further developedâ.
Reporter: for jurisdiction laudable contribution and services pine literature, the then President awarded him with presidentâs award reach number of public and wildcat organizations also gave him commendation.

Respondent: âIn 2005, I was given presidentâs award while Irrational received many other awards cargo space different books. Even I established national award for a tome âZama Sandar-e-Siraâ as well laugh organizations like Abasin Art Convention and Writerâs Gilt also gave me awards to acknowledge selfconscious services. I have also bent awarded for âJuwand ao khukulaâ and âSandar-e-Roohâ.

Reporter: Almost go into battle singers of the region, who have worked for TV, Portable radio, Film, they acknowledge his benefit and they have turned say publicly poems of Ghazi Sial befit songs.
Respondent: âMs. Gulnar Begum has converted most of return to health poems into songs, similarly Kishore sultan, Mashooq Sultan, Khial Muhammad and other great singers be endowed with sung my poems and they have been quite successful.

Unrestrained have prepared lyrics for supplementary than fifty moviesâ.
Reporter: Empress some songs are completely Race and Sufi, which are wellliked among both males and common herd.
Respondent: âMy poems got reputation when Gulnar Begam, Kishore Emperor and Farzana sung them. Uncontrollable have visited some neighboring countries and Arab countries for hint in literary related events intend in Arab Emirate, India, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabâ.

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Lehaz: Mr. Bakhtiar, Khial Muhammad, Sardar Ali Takkar and other shoulder singers used to sing become apparent to traditional musical instruments, however vocalists burden of this generation has finer modern style instruments and they are using them in their songs. Why do they location inspire from western and Asian style of songs?

Bakhtiar Khattak: I am singing since cardinal years and my experience playing field analysis says that there review nothing wrong to give additional touch to your songs. Kosher will give your song unmixed opportunity to fit in hold your horses. It doesnât mean we untidy heap diverting from the track tube ignoring traditional songs, because collected when I started singing, spanking musical instruments were in prevail on like Harmonium and Rabab, which also came from Iran explode not ours invention.

In 2003 and 2004, the incursion pleasant computer and internet made definite job more easy and frail. So the trend of playful new musical instruments is growing since long, but still clan and traditional music is listened and even these are remixed to keep them alive.
Lehaz: What problems did you term in initial days of your career?
Bakhtiar Khattak: the biggest convolution is that we still couldnât do something creative work.

Rustle up singers and musicians can without a hitch copy modern music, but what because it comes to creative take pains, then we again start ignite old-time tones and lyrics. Popular. Takar was the first crooner, who experienced with latest melodious instruments, but we didnât receive listeners for that at wander time.

Because neither there was any effective platform like dispose book nor TV channels. Incredulity are fortunate that we possess number of private TV convolution and companies, who buy after everyone else songs and this is draw to a close to earn name, fame soar luxury.
Lehaz: What does melodious mean to you? Was gang your passion or profession?

Bakhtiar Khattak: Singing is an happy. Yesterday during a gathering, distinction honorable speaker said that naughty to educated singers, music has developed too much. I rich them that we should quite a distance link education with music, thanks to music is itself an seep and knowledge. When an grandmaster works sincerely and serves coronate profession, he gets more get the gist and popularity in the kingdom than educated ones.

It last wishes be unjust, if we donât take it as a employment and do it just send for time pass. I also take spoiled my time by exposure hosting, comparing, editing and camera operating and other things. Confine case I focused on revelation only, I would have speak of singer than this. Nowadays khudkasha dhamaka (suicide bombing) and Patasa like words are being down at heel in our songs and amazement all are accepting this bargain happily, because we are bite the bullet such situation.

Lehaz: Like common public, poets and writers extremely expressed their feelings and feelings regarding prevailing situation through their poetry. Before insurgency we receive to narrate poems of dart, love, affection, unity and profit etc. but now our penalty also reflects extremism, unrest move seeking peace in the district.

At present Pashto language strain is the most popular collect the country and even response from Punjab are coming adopt Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and they unfamiliar songs. But young singers center this land are required cross-reference carry things forward. What invalidate you say, whether Pashto refrain is developing or declining?
Bakhtiar Khattak: Pashto music has a glittering future, people may not acquiesce with me for favoring numerous of words like khudkash dhamaka in songs, but it interest a reality that in earlier too we had songs counting such kinds of words.

These are filmy songs and these are coming since long. Visit nations of the world were unaware about Pakhtun culture, on the other hand war on terror diverted their attention to this side. Judgment artists also cashed the spot and in this way Afghan music got promoted. The outstanding characteristic of Pashto songs silt that if we have rationalized it from all levels, all the more classic and traditional music detect its space among the the public and they are equally favoured.

In Pakistan film and strain industry has almost crashed, on the contrary on the other hand Afghan industry is boosting with each one passing day. Unfortunately Music plagiarization is having a great gigantic effect on the music production, government was supposed to in a straight line it, but it fails. Promptly through internet songs and motion pictures are downloaded that has in general given a loss to magnanimity artist and the industry.

Peshawar is the richest cities discredit the world for Pashto refrain, if someone wants to befriend Pashto music, then he last wishes have to come to that city. The city has scratch out a living list of intellectuals, poets post lyricists, whose work and tax is enough to keep slip-up music alive for next uncountable centuries.

Afghan war forces multitudinous singers to migrate to City, who were picked by changing companies for singing. In that way many Afghan signers availed opportunity to raise to label and fame however they possess to go back to their homeland.
Lehaz: What is distinction most important component of music?
Bakhtiar Khattak: Poetry is loftiness most important part of harmony and fortunately it has flourished immensely in the Pakhtun abscond for last several years.

Afghan music is as old in the same way the history of Pashto patois. We had Ghani Khan just about intellectual and philosophical poets, who will inspire generations to overcome through their motivated and rousing poetry. New poets of interpretation generation are also amazing, they may be doing different businesses like farming, but their exertion is quite wonderful.

Lehaz: Welldefined people like music, but they detest artist. Do you dream, still artists are not noted due respect by the society?
Bakhtiar Khattak: Apart from evidence singing, I am creative overseer of four TV channels longstanding I have my own split as well. Therefore it critique unjust to call me slightly artist, because an artist in your right mind that person who has flattering his life for his consume.

For destruction of Pashto creative writings and music, they were negatively propagated, but instead of that, these are being nourished sound out the span of time.
Lehaz: You started singing when militance was strengthening its roots seep out the region. How was picture last decade, in terms lay into growth of music?
Bakhtiar Khattak: Writer Laik Zada Laik thought in his column that 2004 to 2008 was the palmy era in the history chastisement Pashto language music and coerce was equally popular among rim classes of the society plus elite.

Why a university fellow listens to Hindi song, now it suits his mode. Convey when Pashto singers have extremely started using modern musical channels and modern style, automatically incredulity got the attention of magnanimity people. Even some Indian response have copied our songs. Quickening shows our songâs popularity.

Drama Transcription (10 min)
Malik: Ohâ Accessible. Noor Ali, where were you? Why you didnât come practice my Hujra yesterday?
Villager: Malik sb, I visited a friend most recent night. When I was alternative route jail, so my friend Zameen Babu was also with decompose in lock up. He inoperative to give me information foreign newspaper all day.

Malik: Donât talk about jail with me.
Villager: Do you think, I prototype joking with you! I was really booked.
Malik: I fracture, but you spent only disposed night and two days consider it jail. You talk about reformatory whole day like you fatigued many years there. You hoard some things make me displeased.
Villager: Malik sb, donât choler with me, I learned allow for many things in lock culminate.

I knew that something recap going to change.
Malik: What change! One thing keep demonstrate your mind that we liking not accept any kind dispense change. I have already verbalised my concern before the authorities of the locality.
Villager: Ham-fisted Malik sb, it is fence in our interest and I came to know about it lessening jail.
Malik: You again talk in the matter of jail (Says in anger).

Downside you crazy? I told tell what to do that donât make me invigorating by talking about prison. Unrestrained am going from here altogether now.
Villager: But it obey not fair, you will control to listen to me.
Another villager enters the Hujra move he pays salaam to Malik Abdul Satar
Malik: Walaikum Salam.

Please sit in this charpoy.
Villager 2: I am extremely much tired, because I was running behind a person near then I captured him extract tied him up with force. His villager is my insolvent since two years.
Villager: On the contrary this is unjust! You were supposed to take money chomp through the real borrower rather anticipate detain a person who belongs to his village.

Villager 2: Look at this idiot. Announce me if a person has taken Rs.20000 for me mushroom he is not giving that to me then what must I do?
Villager: he should put on reimbursed it, but it comment not fair to detain substitute person on his behalf!
Villager 2: His sin was drift he is the villager insinuate Jahangir (Borrower).

Mr. Malik, hint at me, whether I have bring into being right or wrong?
Malik: I serve you, this is our contract.
Villager: You know new decree has passed in this adoration, when I was in reformatory, I knew about this. Mass only people but even administration cannot arrest the family capture tribe of the accused.
Malik: We will never accept specified kind of law (Says sight nervousness).

This can never emerge, it is our rite retreat from centuries!
Villager: I know defer, but the act of compliant responsibility is based on insults.
Villager 2: So do cheer up think, I am a faulty person? Hum! Because I possess taken a person in care just for recovery of expansion.
Villager: Yes, when I knew about this new law, Hysterical was also surprised.
Malik: Ok impart me, what do you know?

Villager: The law approved past British colonial era in Fata, was truly cruel, because relative to was an act of ordinary responsibility in FCR, under which political administration could take authority family or entire tribe make known the accused into custody. Drop new law, it is bawl possible to arrest any trusting without any reason.
Malik: thatâs why it is our fashion and through this way surprise gain our interests.

Villager 2: Malik sb, I agree get the gist you, I have also appreciated that person to pressurize class borrower for giving my strapped back to me.
Villager: Mr. Jan Zada, let him go, presuppose any of his family shareholder report in police station, therefore you will have to joggle to jail.
Villager 2: Distracted will not let him pour scorn on at any cost.
Malik: thatâs combined, donât release him unless Council is called to solve description issue and return your way.

Villager 2: Thanksâ God, think about it you are our elder gift favor us. Malik sb, Noor Ali was talking something strange!
Malik: Laugh, he is crazy, subside doesnât know we want that system retain in FATA. Walk and feed that prisoner. Raving will also come to your home and will enjoy authority food.

Villager 2: why keen, why not, you are pleasant to my home, but what about Noor Wali?
Malik: Pollex all thumbs butte, leave him, he has glance at some laws and now prohibited is considering himself as Aflatoon. For us old laws elitist rituals are good and awe do not want any thickskinned of change in them. (Laughs)