jaibi
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thank you sir for giving me full picture of this incident..but even then,if against a threat,a country legalized the ban on performing music concert in institution,what'll stop the terrorists group to issue a threat to any music concert in the country,to give government another excuse to ban music??Pakistani singers are a huge hit in India,thats why i'm asking this question..lack of music industry is one thing,legalizing a ban against music(against a bomb blast,which is a terrorist activity) is another thing..In India too,there are some morons giving fatwa against music..its our good luck that things didn't come to this stage(bomb blast)..
You are most welcome and to answer your question, sir, actually the terrorists always threaten every music concert that we have. Last November the Culture festival had to be cancelled due to an extreme threat. However, sir, the music taste in Pakistan has not been panned out. Every urs of a Sufi saint we have has music in it and I know for a fact that Afridi tribesmen from KPK make journey to indulge in such events. I met a few gentlemen in the Mian Mir urs in Lahore. As for the terrorists, most people do not view music as bad, for instance the Coke Studio's mixing of Punjabi/Balochi folk song was much appreciated. The problem comes when the music scene itself is wrongly represented such as Bolloywood erotic songs, with all due respect, that causes many of our conservatives to raise battle cries, though I disagree with them and say that one can enjoy whatever they want the dimension gets a bit more complicated. In a research work on the effects of music that my university conducted it was seen that many (in terms of quantitative data I think it was near about 65-68% though it was done in 2010 and my memory is a bit shaky) Pakistani households in Kasur, Lahore, Pehsawar, Gujrat and Rawalpindi (we are talking of lower-middle and lower class here) have active radios in their houses which run on an average of 4-6 hours a day. The radio stations most tuned to were music and the females reported that they find it easier to work with music (household chores).
The picture, again, as I said is a bit more complicated. I attended the Atif Aslam concert a year back at Royal Palm and there were threats but by 2 am the whole ground was packed and mostly by families.