MAPEH PAKISTAN

• Pakistan is the Land of the Pure
• Islamabad is the capital
• Karachi is the largest city
• Urdu is the official language
• Ghazal is expression of love, seperation and loneliness
• Qawwali is a devotional music of the chisthi order
• qawwali is performed mainly as Sufi Shrines
• Punjabi music strengthens the importance of musical instruments
• Punjab is divided into 4 regions which is west punjab, pakistan, east punjab and india
• Bhangra is based on drum rhythm of dhol
• Central asia music
• ghazal is considered many to be one of the forms of principal poetic poem
• Bhangra is the subject of tabla, dholak, harmonium and rubab
• Islam is the dominant religion
• Ghan instruments are ghatam, manjira, karta and nout
• Avanaddh instruments are daf, tabla and dhol