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Noor Mohammad Shah has given traditional Sufi music a new lease of life after a chance encounter
Noor Mohammad Shah with his rabab, a lute-like music instrument he had previously used to make a meagre living performing at weddings and village festivals. Photograph: Athar/Azhar Qadri
Noor Mohammad Shah with his rabab, a lute-like music instrument he had previously used to make a meagre living performing at weddings and village festivals. Photograph: Athar/Azhar Qadri
Azhar Qadri in Srinagar and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
Fri 2 Jul 2021 00.00 EDT
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Noor Mohammad Shah had always happily lived a life of obscurity. Born in a small village in the conflict-ridden state of Kashmir in India, Shah had been introduced to the mystical world of Sufi music as a child and for decades since had made a meagre but fulfilling living singing traditional songs and performing on his rabab, a lute-like music instrument, at weddings and village festivals.
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Top story: âTheyâve voted for hopeâ
Good morning, Iâm Graham Russell and welcome to Friday and the stories making the news so far today.
Kim Leadbeater has been hailed as âbrilliant and braveâ by Labour leader Keir Starmer this morning after she defied glum predictions and won the Batley and Spen byelection. Labour beat the Tories by just over 300 votes, losing nearly all of its already-slender majority of 3,525 in the West Yorkshire seat that it has held since 1997.
Leadbeater said she was âabsolutely delighted that the people of Batley and Spen have rejected division and theyâve voted for hopeâ. Brendan Cox, the widower of Leadbeaterâs sister Jo Cox, who was murdered in 2016, tweeted: âWe are all incredibly proud of Kim Leadbeater today and Jo would have been too.â
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PPP retains NA-221 Tharparkar constituency
Violent incidents were reported from three out of 318 polling stations in the constituency
HYDERABAD:
Marked by some episodes of violence, including burning of the election material at a polling station, the NA-221 Tharparkar by-election on Sunday suggested retention of the constituency by the Pakistan Peoples Party.
As per the unofficial results from 220 polling stations, the PPP’s candidate Pir Ameer Ali Shah Jilani was leading against his opponent Nizamuddin Rahimoon of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf with a massive 82,551 votes against the latter’s 35,061 votes.
The violent incidents were reported from three out of 318 polling stations in the constituency, which has a total of 281,900 registered votes, including 157,099 male and 124,801 female.