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Amjad Sabri: Pakistani Sufi singer shot dead in Karachi

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Amjad Sabri: Pakistani Sufi singer shot dead in Karachi Outpouring of grief across Pakistan as famed musician Amjad Sabri is killed in Taliban gun attack on car One of Pakistan ’s most famous and respected musicians, celebrated for devotional songs from a centuries-old mystic tradition, has been shot dead by Taliban gunmen in Karachi. Amjad Sabri , 45, was shot by two men on a motorbike as he drove through a congested area of the port city on Wednesday, Allah Dino Khawaja, the regional police chief, told Reuters. A relative travelling with the musician was injured but survived. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Qari Saifullah Mehsud, claimed responsibility for the killing and said Sabri was targeted because the group considered his music blasphemous, local media reported . The attack happened a day after a homeopathic doctor from the Ahmadi minority was killed in the same city, and two days after masked men seized the son of a top provincial judge, fuelling co...

Miley Cyrus pays Hannah Montana tribute on Instagram

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Miley Cyrus may not have been the biggest fan of her Disney Channel series  Hannah Montana,  but she is still celebrating the 10th anniversary of the show’s premiere. On Thursday she Instagrammed a lengthy tribute to her former costars, once again donning that blonde wig. The “Wrecking Ball” singer posted a screenshot of a text conversation between herself and Jason Earles, the actor who played her older brother Jackson on  Hannah Montana . The conversation includes a picture of Cyrus lying on the ground in a blonde wig, writing, ”10 years later still laying around in a blonde wig,” and Earles responds, “Try as you might, you can’t get away.” RELATED: The 25 Best Disney Channel Original Series Ever Alongside the picture, Cyrus wrote a long piece in which she sends love to all of the former  Hannah Montana  cast members and special guests, and encourages her fans to celebrate the anniversary of the show by “get[ting...