<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ff474178-3f13-4b03-a3f1-e7b5b70aec12/D4428C71-6F48-4575-B10E-DC588EDC48AA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068237&ch=10/10/2008%2012:56:00%20AM" href="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068237&ch=10/10/2008%2012:56:00%20AM" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ndtv.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068237&ch=10/10/2008%2012:56:00%20AM"><DIV>Gulzar Alam's songs filled Peshawar's air not long ago, when the city was a different place with music, theater and even a bazaar for musicians and artists. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068237&ch=10/10/2008%2012:56:00%20AM"><DIV>Dabgari Bazaar was famous for its artists and musicians. But the artists and musicians have gone and this whole area has been commercialized. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068237&ch=10/10/2008%2012:56:00%20AM"><DIV>It is to this reality that Pushtu singer Gulzar Alam has returned to after years in self imposed exile in Balochistan -- only because the liberal Awami National Party has formed the government. <A class="BlueLink-12" href="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videopod/default.aspx?id=40797"><B>(Watch)</B></A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068237&ch=10/10/2008%2012:56:00%20AM"><BR /><DIV>"Then a time came in our province that culture, arts and music were banned. Tape recorders were forcibly removed from people's private cars and public transport. And there was a ban on musical functions. And that time we suffered a lot, our whole community of artists just fled the country." </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068237&ch=10/10/2008%2012:56:00%20AM"><DIV>For now, Gulzar keeps the music only to himself. His neighbours have asked him not to gather musicians around so the Taliban are not provoked into punishing the entire neighbourhood. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068237&ch=10/10/2008%2012:56:00%20AM"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ndtv.com/img/C142D48D-F574-4BE8-8F3E-367D9822B713" alt="The day the music died in Peshawar" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D4428C71-6F48-4575-B10E-DC588EDC48AA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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