Daastan literally means story/ tale. In Daastan, a group of story tellers start the Daastan with an old folk story or a tale and during the narration of tale Daastan tellers take pause and during that pause give a poetic touch to the story and various musical instruments are also used while the story is expressed in poetic form. Thus Daastan is a unique combination of story, poetry and music and as such an indispensable part of the Kashmiri music. In Daastan not only old Kashmiri folk stories like Krali Koor, Aknandun but also other old stories like Laila Majnoon, Shireen Farhad, and Yousuf Zulikha etc are also narrated.