Renowned tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, who passed away at 73 on December 15, was laid to rest on December 19 at Fernwood Cemetery, Mill Valley.

Learning Keeps Me Going: Ustad Zakir Hussain. The 72-year-old Ustad says that many great musicians came to India to learn as they wanted.

The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has issued the latest forced evacuation order for civilians living in nine areas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

Wali Khan wanted the … frontiers of Pakistan to be shifted from Torkham to Margalla Hills … and from Chamman to Jacobabad, and this conformed to the boundary of the map of “Pakhtoonistan ...