Legendary sufi singer Abida Parveen has been admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after suffering a heart attack, hospital officials said on Sunday.
According to doctors, she underwent angioplasty and is under observation at ICU for 24 hours. The sufi singer suffered a heart attack Saturday night and was admitted to a local hospital, a family member said in Lahore.
The doctors however said that she is out of danger and would be shifted from the ICU in the next 12 hours.
Abida Parveen was born in 1954. The singer is of Sindhi descent and is one of the foremost exponents of sufi music (sufiana kalaam). She sings mainly ghazals, Urdu love songs, and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by sufi poets. Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Seraiki, Punjabi and Persian, and together with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered one of the finest sufi vocalists of the modern era.