Many musicians have declared that Rock & Roll will save the world. Few, it seems, have as much resting on that gamble as Pakistani rocker Salman Ahmad, founder of South Asia’s hottest rock band, ...

From a distance, it looked like any other New York City rock concert. A mass of jumping, singing, sweating kids swarmed in front of the stage. Girls in baby T-shirts bounced on the shoulders of boys ...

When Salman Ahmad stepped onto the stage at Queens College last week, he was promoting the same message that has long defined his career and vaulted him into stardom as one of Pakistan’s best-known ...

Salman Ahmad, M.D., knows that he is an unlikely rock star. Make that an unlikely rock star, klezmer jam-session collaborator, celebrity to the Muslim world and United Nations goodwill ambassador. Not ...

Salman Ahmad was a 19-year-old medical student in 1982 when he performed music on stage for the first time in his native Pakistan. Having just returned from six years in the United States, where he'd ...

Musical group Starzone performs on season 4 of Pepsi Battle of the Bands. But in the wake of the attack, it wasn’t merely cricket, or sports, that saw global stars pulling out from visiting the ...

Potato and egg curry is hard to stomach for the millions of Pakistani schoolchildren who pack it for lunch every day. But for the rock band Beygairat (Shameless) Brigade, Pakistanis' shared pain of ...

As part of our series, "The Urban Frontier," Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep speaks with musician Salman Ahmad. Ahmad was born in Pakistan, but grew up in suburban America listening to bands like ...

LONDON — Being a teenager in the unexciting London suburb of Luton in the 1980s was gruesome enough without the added complication of Pakistani parents who functioned as an in-house anti-fun squad.

Benazir Bhutto’s assassination might mean prolonged turmoil for Pakistan — and an emboldened Islamic militancy that already has a strong foothold in the country. The only way to prevent chaos is if ...