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‘Displaced’ singer longs for home

By Jamil Khan @ Gulf Today-Sharjah, October 14, 2010

WAGMA, a well-known Pushto singer, is in town again, but this time she is not here to enthrall the audience with her charming voice and to make the community sing everlasting Pushto folksongs. Instead, she has been forced to stay here with her husband and children after receiving a number of threats to her life from a group of “unknown” individuals who seized her house after they broke into the place, around two weeks ago.
In a press conference held at a local hotel in Dubai, she appealed to the Ambassador of Pakistan and the Consul General in Dubai to intervene into the matter to free her house and to give her back her free life.
Wagma, who has received much recognition from the Government of Pakistan as well as from individual bodies, has recorded thousands of Pushto  folksongs including ‘ghazal,’ ‘charbait,’ and ‘tappay.’ She has also been a playback singer for a score of Pushto films produced in Pakistan for the last two decades.
“I have been singing for my entire life and want to continue, which is not only my passion to serve the nation but is also my livelihood,” said Wagma, who began singing Pushto songs in 1989 at the Peshawar Centre and then went onto perform on various television stations in the country.

Threats received
“Unfortunately, there are some elements within our society that want to stop me from doing so,” she added, explaining that her family had received a number of threats over the last couple of months, and to avoid this she had left the country.
She pointed out that the decision to leave the country was a difficult one as they had no where else to go to hide and save their lives. “My husband (Liaquat) has been working here as an organiser for the last seven years and this was the only place where we could come,” she said.
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