Musician and singer Noel Jamshaid was threatened with "dire consequences" by unidentified persons in Karachi, reported Rehman Saman on 21 September 2008.
The newsletter Minorities Concern of Pakistan wrote:
“Some men halted Noel Jamshaid when he was on his way home around 9 PM on his motorbike. They jolted him and warned him for composing Christian music and imparting music skills for church activities.
The culprits also snatched his mobile phone and wallet. In the past, Noel, who is head of an organisation named Church Music & Message Ministry had already been threatened a number of times through unknown phone calls.”
Source: Minorities Concern of Pakistan. December 2008 – Issue No. 33, edited by Aftab Mughal
It will take a long time for Swat’s musical culture to recover from the Taliban’s crackdown on music, reported Shaheen Buneri from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
In the sixteenth attack on Sufi shrines in two years, Taliban suicide bombers killed 49 and injured 93 Sufi devotees while they were doing music and meditation
The bombings of CD markets in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in beginning of February 2011 suggests that militants are again threatening the entertainment industry
On 26 November 2010, unidentified militants kidnapped Musharraf Bengash, a Pashtun singer from the Mir Ali area in North Waziristan. Later, a jirga negotiated his release
After a military operation against the religious extremists, artists are now returning back to Swat Valley in northern Pakistan, reported The Express Tribune.
A group of religious extremists threatened Asad Qazilbash, a renowned sarood player in Islamabad, to stop giving lessons and remove the signboard for his music school
Rock star Salman Ahmad desribes his encounters with angry mullahs and oppressive dictators who wanted all music to be banned from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Five people were injured and 10 shops damaged in a bomb blast on 28 January 2010 in a music and video market in the small town of Jand in Pakistan's Punjab province
A concert with the exiled Pakistani singer Haroon Bacha on 9 December 2009 marks the start of 'Impossible Music Sessions' in New York showcasing banned music
