Quoted in Dawn News
There has been a beholding sight observed in the Music Video of Mehr Othak, which is sung by Pari Zafar and Mubarak Dad, in which a Baloch Woman is attired in the traditional pashk, an ankle-length embroidered dress often with hand-woven threads, and Black Baloch Chador, stripes of red, yellow, blue, and white as a turban. She sings while dressed in this attire, simultaneously strumming a guitar.
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This is the journey of 23-year-old Pari, who comes from the small town of Panjgur in Balochistan’s west. Her journey began when she started noticing the defiance of Baloch Women’s art of singing. Since Childhood, she wanted to be a singer, a rock star.
She grew up listening mostly to Western music, instead of traditional Balochi music. She built up this desire to promote Baloch music among the newer generation.
But it was not a bed of roses, she faced many hurdles and criticism. Initially, her father was reluctant, but over the years he has become supportive.
“I still remember buying my first guitar by saving my pocket money,” she tells Eos. “I would then practise in my room late at night when everyone slept.”
Whenever she shared this dream of hers with others, they would simply laugh and mock her. But that was a long time ago.
Now, Pari performs in her unique attire and style, she performs in a way that urges everyone to call out one name “a Rockstar”
A new breed of female Baloch musicians,
buoyed by the success of their male counterparts,
is keen to revitalize Balochi music through fusion
Quoted in Dawn News by a freelance journalist
