Salman Ahmad

Salman Ahmad
Salman Ahmad (in center).
Background information
Birth name	Salman Ahmad
Born	(1963-12-12) 12 December 1963 (age 53) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Genres	Rock and Sufi
Occupation(s)	Doctor (mbbs)
Instruments	vocals, electric guitar, Electric acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Coke Studio, EMI Records, PTV Studios, Studio 146
Associated acts	Vital Signs, Junoon
Notable instruments
, Gibson EDS-1275, Ibanez JS Series, PRS Guitars

Salman Ahmad (Urdu: سلمان احمد‎, b. 12 December 1963), is a Pakistani musician, rock guitarist, physician, activist, and professor at the City University of New York.

He earned nationwide popularity in 1998 for his unique style of neoclassical playing in rock. An early engineer of the Vital Signs, he formed Junoon (lit. Obsession) in 1990 with American bassist Brian O'Connell and pioneered the Sufi influenced rock music in Pakistan. He started his activism in mid-1990s and has been involved in two BBC documentaries concerning the issues in Pakistan such as society, education, religion and science.

He has served as the UN Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS Programme towards spreading awareness about HIV in South Asia. While working with the Pakistan's media to help initiate peace between India and Pakistan, Ahmad continues to produce documentaries and solo guitar albums. At present, he is serving tenured professor at the Queens College of the City University of New York although, with Junoon being disintegrated, Salman Ahmad continues to perform as a solo artist under the "Junoon" label and has moved to New York and released one album as a solo artist, "Infiniti" in 2005.