Articles on Ghazal, Including - Noor Jehan, Abida Parveen, Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Habib Wali Mohammad, Iqbal Bano, Farida Khanum, Tahira Syed, Malika Pukhraj, Amanat Ali Khan, A. Nayyar, Asad Amanat Ali Khan, Munni Begum, Nayyara Noor (Paperback)

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