Mohammad Sharif Khan (Born in 1926, Poonch, British India – Died 26 May 1980, Pakistan) known as Ustad Sharif Khan Poonchwaley was a classical player of sitar, vichitra veena and raza been (rudra veena) in the hindustani classical music tradition.
[1] Sharif Khan was born at Hisar, now in Haryana, India in a family of musicians.
[2] He was a member of the early original team hired by the first Managing Director Aslam Azhar of Pakistan Television, Lahore Center to perform as a sitar player, when it first started TV broadcasts in 1964.
Everywhere he went, he charmed audiences with his stylishness, registering the intricacies and subtleties of otherwise typical ragas.
[2][1] In 2011, his son Ashraf Sharif Khan gives sitar performances at music festivals in Pakistan.