September 2009
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Pakistani Swedish Music →
(via ayeshaaz)
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The complex reality of the Northern Areas →
By Luv Puri, a Fulbright fellow at New York University. He previously reported for The Hindu, an Indian daily, in Jammu.
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Overload - Dhammal Dhammal is a Sufi trance movement over a specific style of Dhool (type of drum) beats (also called Dhammal). The Dhammal type of Dhool mostly played in Pakistan is different from Chaal which is more of an Indian style of playing Dhool.
Overload is a fusion group of percussion from East and West. Featuring Pakistan’s top most Dhool players, Papu Saeen and Saeen Jhura.
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Invite: Book reading with Owen Bennett Jones
BBC journalist exclusive on Pakistan’s socio-political climate
Dear Friends, We cordially invite you to attend a book reading with distinguished author and BBC journalist, Owen Bennett Jones on Thursday 8th October 2009. Bennett Jones will provide a candid overview of his book, Eye of The Storm (3rd Edition), based on Pakistan and the current socio-political climate. The event will be...
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Video: Pakistan police crack down on... →
Pakistani truck drivers take special pride in decorating their vehicles. But police are clamping down on excessive decoration- especially when it blocks the driver’s view - AFP
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UK, Pakistan set up joint task force on education →
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Graffiti (in Pakistan) is here to stay →
One night in the early 1970s in Karachi, on a clean whitewashed wall of a house in Bahadurabad, some highly incensed political activist had scrawled the words, ‘Mehraj Mohammad Khan ko reha karo’ (trans. Free Mehraj Mohammad Khan). Next morning the owner of the house, visibly annoyed, brought out pail, brush and distemper and cleansed the wall of the unwanted intrusion. It was his...
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Pakistanis displaced by Taliban face miserable Eid →
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6 Germans held in Pakistan →
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Another time, another anthem →
Most people are unaware that prior to Hafeez Jullundhri’s Persianised lyrics being adopted as the national anthem in the 1950s, Pakistan had a national anthem — commissioned and approved by no less a person than Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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American Rose fights for Pakistani husband →
Rose, a 32-year-old American woman in Islamabad, is seeking justice for her Pakistani husband, Hasan, who claims that he was detained and tortured by officials of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before being deported in 2006.