Badar Miandad

Badar Miandad Khan, also known as Badar Ali Khan, was a Pakistani qawwali singer who released numerous albums in Pakistan and several on British and Indian labels. ^{1 2}

He was born at Pakpattan on 17 February — 1962 in the article's text and in Wikidata, 1960 in its infobox — into a noted family of Punjabi-language qawwals: his father Ustad Rasheed Miandad and grandfather Ustad Din Muhammad. He was a cousin and brother-in-law of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. ^{1 2}

He began in 1975 and by the mid-1980s was one of Pakistan's best-known qawwals. He scored Indian films such as 'Virodh' and Pakistani films including 'Jannat Ki Talash' (1999), which won the Nigar Award for best film. His best-known qawwalis include 'Awwal Hamd Sana-e-Ilahi', to words by Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, 'Dam Dam Hussain Maula Hussain', 'Jashan-e-Aamad-e-Rasool' and 'Ganj Shakar Walian Da Raja'. ¹

Like his cousin Nusrat he experimented with setting traditional qawwali lyrics to new instruments and beats, producing the best-selling fusion album 'Good Karma 1' with Suresh 'Baba' Varma; his 'Raataan Kaaliyaan' was used in the American series 'Breaking Bad'. ¹

He died in Lahore on 2 March 2007, aged 47, of a heart attack after two years of heart trouble, diabetes and high blood pressure, as Dawn reported. His younger brother Sher Miandad is a well-known qawwal, and his son Sikandar Badar Miandad a singer. ^{1 2}

Wikidata listed articles on him in four Wikipedia editions on 6 November 2026: Egyptian Arabic, Bengali, English and Urdu. ²

• English Wikipedia article, revision of 10 October 2026. ¹

• Wikidata item Q4840602. ²