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Fatsumas – Dirty Looks, I Like You, Whatever’s in your head

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The Fatsumas is a band from Islamabad Pakistan. Their music is often described by the Pakistani media as original – that either says a lot about the band or a lot about Pakistan’s music “scene” at large. Original songs are a novelty here I guess.

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Welcome to Slackistan: Pakistan’s first ever slacker movie [The Guardian]

By Riazat Butt

A few hundred miles from Pakistan’s Badlands, Islamabad is the setting for Hammad Khan’s new low-budget indie flick. So why does it feel like smalltown America?

Aisha Akhtar and Shahbaz Shigri, just - you know - hanging
Aisha Akhtar and Shahbaz Shigri, just - you know - hanging

Visitors to Islamabad, the small but perfectly formed capital of Pakistan, could be forgiven for thinking that the only things to rock the place were terrorist attacks.