Junoon’s journey, embarked by the launch of their first self-titled album Junoon in 1991, can be compared to a whirling dervish. Ahmad: Iqbal once wrote, ‘The whisper in your heart has strength, it ...

For a band whose birth “wasn’t really scripted,” according to lead guitarist Salman Ahmad, Junoon seems to have managed a long, if occasionally ragged innings. This month the subcontinent’s only mega ...

The genesis of Pakistani band 'Junoon' (obsession or passion in Urdu) is interesting. Apparently the name came to lead guitarist and vocalist Salman Ahmad in a dream when he 'saw' one of his teachers ...

Recently, in an interview that he gave to the BBC, Salman Ahmed – former guitarist of (the now defunct) ‘Sufi-Rock’ group, Junoon – claimed that his band’s 1996 pop anthem, ‘Jazba Junoon’ became ...

There I was one lonely night back in 1999, watching the Zee Cine Awards by myself. Among the Indian celebrities there were a few familiar faces. That night Junoon performed Sayeein to a packed concert ...

After a successful reunion of sorts of one of Pakistan’s pioneering music group Junoon, first in the form of an announcement featuring the big three – Ali Azmat, Brian O’ Connell and Salman Ahmed – ...