Billo De Ghar is début album of Pakistani

Pakistan

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 pop

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 singer Abrar-ul-Haq

Abrar-ul-Haq

Abrar-ul-Haq is a Pakistani pop, bhangra and folk singer. On his first album "Billo De Ghar" his name appears as simply "Abrar". Before becoming a singer, he was a geography teacher at the Aitchison College in Lahore.- Life :Abrar has kept the year of his birth a secret, so as to not reveal his age...

. It was written, composed and sung by the artist himself and became a best selling album in South Asia

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 at the time of its release in 1995. To date, more than 16 million copies of this song have been sold. The lyrics of the songs are in Punjabi

Punjabi language

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...

 and Urdu

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Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

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Although, the album's highly successful title song Billo De Ghar is in Punjabi, in all only three of its ten tracks are in Punjabi the rest are in Urdu.

Murri Shehry Di Niki, one of three Punjabi tracks, is in a dialect of Punjabi called Pothohari

Pothohari

Potwari or Pothohari can refer to:*Pothohari people, inhabitants of Pothohar , a plateau in northern Pakistan*Pothohari language , a dialect spoken widely by the population of the Potohar Plateau and Mirpur in neighbouring Azad Kashmir...

 which is mostly spoken in Murree

Murree

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, Islamabad

Islamabad

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 and Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...

. It may be an influence of the time Abrar spent in Islamabad for his Master's degree

Master's degree

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Track listing

1. Billo (a.k.a. Billo De Ghar)
2. Dil Pey Hamary
3. Murri Shehry Di Niki
4. Aaja Na
5. Hum Tum Mile The
6. Sohni Surat
7. Agar Kabhi
8. Alam-e-Bhaghawat
9. Allah Pakistan
10. Satchian Te Korian