Though unbelievably, yet it appears only a matter of yesterday that on 8th of August 1997, as the "Shahenshah-e-Qawwali", the appellation, with which Hon'ble Mr. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was known in reverence, had made a tour to Pakistan in the pursuit of getting his melodious song recorded there for the purpose of its Television-telecasting there, and had made his successful return in a very gleeful set of mind with setting out on his journey to London.

It is very shortly afterwards as on the 16 of August, 1997, a heart-rending news in concerning His death made its sordid arrival as a bolt from the blue amongst his adherents that Hon'ble Mr. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has become dust unto dust.

This news put his adherents at a loss to believe the news as reluctantly untrue, though, as a matter of fact it was true. Grief-strickenly astonished, all adherents among other people, being helpless as they were then, were unable to comprehend as to what and how it has come to pass in all its unsettling suddenness. All, who were indebted to him for what they had owed from him in terms of musical endowments, ultimately resigned it to fate conceding that the human beings are subject to the dictates and the supreme will of the God and the incontrovertibly irrevocable death of the "Shahenshah" was to be greeted with tears of blood by them.

Born on 13th of October, 1948 in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan and after contracting hepatitis in Pakistan from the infected dialysis equipment used for his treatment for Liver and Kidney there, as reports of the doctors put it, he died of a sudden cardiac arrest at Cromwell Hospital, London on 16th of August 1997 at the age of 49.

Today, apart from his dear relatives, the bereaved Mr. Khan is survived by his countless followers residing in Europe, India, Japan, USA and Pakistan and, to date, they have not recovered from the shock of his death.

Today, apart from his dear relatives, the bereaved Mr. Khan is survived by his countless followers residing in Europe, India, Japan, USA and Pakistan and, to date, they have not recovered from the shock of his death.