Amjad Sabri

Amjad Farid Sabri (23 December 1976 – 22 June 2016) was a Pakistani qawwali singer and a proponent of the Sufi Muslim tradition. Amjad was a scion of the family of the Sabri Brothers; the son of Ghulam Farid Sabri and a nephew of Maqbool Ahmed Sabri, he emerged as one of South Asia's prominent qawwali singers. He was assassinated in Karachi in June 2016 by terrorists of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The TTP Hakimullah Mehsud group claimed responsibility, saying they had assassinated him "for blasphemy".