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SALMAN AHMAD

Book by Salman Ahmad: 'Rock & Roll Jihad'
Rock star Salman Ahmad desribes his encounters with angry mullahs and oppressive dictators who wanted all music to be banned from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
10 February 2010
Pakistan/USA: Salman Ahmad: Obama should listen to Pakistani artists
As the Taliban silence music in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan, Freemuse ambassador Salman Ahmad denounces the Pakistani peace accord with the Taliban
13 March 2009
Human Rights for Musicians – Impressions & Descriptions: Salman Ahmad
Testimonial by Salman Ahmad in the anniversary publication 'Human Rights for Musicians - Ten Years With Freemuse'
30 January 2009
Salman Ahmad
Video interview with ex-Junoon member Salman Ahmad about music prohibition among Islamists, and about music censorship in Pakistan
22 November 2005
Pakistan: 'Taliban have hijacked Islam', says Freemuse ambassador
In an article published by Washington Post, Freemuse ambassador and singer Salman Ahmad and filmmaker Karam Pasha criticise the Taliban of hijacking Islam in Pakistan
28 April 2009
'Freemuse Ambassador' plays Nobel Peace Prize concert
'Freemuse Ambassador' Salman Ahmad and his band Junoon joins major artists from all over the world at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, on 11 December 2007
26 November 2007
Denmark: Focus on arguments against religious music prohibition
Salman Ahmad visited Copenhagen in February 2007 to introduce the screening of the documentary film, 'The Rock Star and the Mullahs'
15 February 2007
Three films about music and Islam hit Scandinavia
Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad and editor Simon Broughton visit Denmark and Sweden in February 2007 to show three documentary films about music and Islam
24 January 2007
USA: Banned Musician speaks at Clinton Global Initiative
Pakistani rockstar Salman Ahmad has been invited to speak at former US president Bill Clintons Global Initiative panel in New York on 21 September 2006
14 September 2006
Freemuse.org: Focus on artists from the Middle East
Watch the new video interviews on www.freemuse.org recorded during the 'Images of the Middle East' festival which took place in Denmark in August-September 2006
30 October 2006
Pakistan: The censored meet the censor
In the BBC4 programme "The Rock Star and the Mullah", Salman Ahmad, guitarist with Pakistani rock group Junoon, meet the men who banned music
18 December 2003