The fresh-faced foursome provided the soundtrack to an era of social and economic liberalism that began after another plane crash, in 1988, killed the pro-Islamist military ruler Gen. The 52-year-old Jamshed was returning from a preaching tour Wednesday when the twin-engine Pakistan International Airlines plane he was flying in crashed into a hillside, killing all 48 passengers and crew members aboard.Īs Pakistani authorities opened an investigation into the crash, Jamshed’s death set off a wave of nostalgia for his pop career and his band, Vital Signs, the country’s first commercially successful music act. But in many ways Jamshed’s life encapsulated the long struggle in Pakistan - an overwhelmingly Muslim nation of 180 million people - between secularism and orthodox Islam.ħ:42 p.m.: An earlier version of this story misspelled music fan Siddique Farooqi’s last name as Farooqui. His band’s song “Dil Dil Pakistan” (“Heart Heart Pakistan”) became a second national anthem, its upbeat video aired endlessly on television in an era before satellite channels or YouTube.īut Jamshed was uncomfortable with fame, and after a decade as a pop icon he ditched his stonewashed jeans for clerical robes and joined an Islamist evangelical movement. Junaid Jamshed was the voice of a generation of Pakistanis in the 1990s, as the country emerged from a decade of Islamist policies that had stifled liberal music and culture. He burst into the national imagination with a stylish mane and sparkling eyes, riding a motorcycle through green fields and singing a patriotic pop song set to lively synthesizer beats.
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