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Atish Raj

Pakistani rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4815852 ↗
Source-derived summary

Atish Raj (Urdu: آتش راج transl. Fiery reign, also spelled, Aatish Raj), was an industrial and avant-garde Pakistani rock band formed and fronted by Pakistani music journalist and writer, Nadeem F. Paracha.

Relaunch

In a recent development Paracha was approached by Zeeshan Pervez, leader of Sajid & Zeeshan, for the remixing of an Atish Raj song, "War in Heaven." The song was relaunched in February 2007.

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“Atish Raj” enters the record as pakistani rock band. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Atish, Pakistani and rock can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Atish, Pakistani and rock.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4815852. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Atish Raj” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.