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“Music is the spice of life ... it has been a part of our culture from time immemorial,” says Farman Ali Shah, a village elder and Pashto poet in Warsak village near tribal areas. Pashtun music is characterised by the rabab, played to the beat from tabla’s drums, with songs salted with florid lyrics describing the pain of unrequited love or calls for political revolution.For centuries we were a liberal society,” explains rabab player and member of the National Assembly Haider Ali Khan from Swat Valley. “We love our religion but at the same time we love our traditional music.” Yet the slow creep of extremism had been threatening that tradition for decades. Beginning in the 1970s more hard-line movements started gaining influence in the Pashtun areas along the border with Afghanistan, promoting strict interpretations of the religion including dismissive takes towards music.