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Pakistan’s soft power music moment

When the acknowledgement of Pakistan’s soft power comes up, it’s usually attached to something official - a cultural...

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In August, Spotify’s editorial team published “The Best Pakistani Songs of the Year So Far 2026” - 50 tracks spanning pop, ballads, experimental music, reworked classics and hip-hop. This wasn’t a locally driven playlist or a diaspora nostalgia exercise; it was a global platform’s own editors deciding, on their own criteria, that Pakistani music had produced enough worth flagging to a worldwide audience.

 

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Pakistan’s soft power music moment

When the acknowledgement of Pakistan’s soft power comes up, it’s usually attached to something official - a cultural...

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In August, Spotify’s editorial team published “The Best Pakistani Songs of the Year So Far 2026” - 50 tracks spanning pop, ballads, experimental music, reworked classics and hip-hop. This wasn’t a locally driven playlist or a diaspora nostalgia exercise; it was a global platform’s own editors deciding, on their own criteria, that Pakistani music had produced enough worth flagging to a worldwide audience.

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Crafts from 100 Pakistani villages on display under one roof at Karachi Expo Centre

Open from 10am to 9pm, the Daachi Arts and Crafts Exhibition concludes on Sunday.

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KARACHI: Celebrating crafts from over 100 villages across Pakistan, the two-day 25th Daachi Arts and Crafts Exhibition opened at the Karachi Expo Centre on Saturday.

The creativity of artisans was on display on over 200 stalls in the shape of the finest pottery from Hala and Multan, painted and carved woodwork, hand blocked and embroidered textiles, brassware and kilims, basketry and folk toys, traditional silver and bead jewellery and organic and preserved fruit products from Hunza.

Other than puppet shows and hands-on pottery making for children, an art gallery and organic food by home-based cooks were also a part of the exhibition.