There were two different waves of violence, and I think a differentiation is needed. ---- Yesterday I was watching a local pakistani vodcast[1], and a famous

There were two different waves of violence, and I think a differentiation is needed. ---- Yesterday I was watching a local pakistani vodcast[1], and a famous singer was mentioning how the entire music scene has changed in the 90's, there was a lot of ethnic conflict and violence... but despite the shutter down strikes and other violence, the music scene flourished and records labels (mostly based out of Karachi) grew rapidly but in the 00's & 10's, there was a rise of a different type of violence; religiously motivated terrorism, specifically suicide bombings. What this meant was that concerts and musical and other artistic events were often banned by authorities as they were perceived as to be targets of terrorists, and thus a magnet for a suicide bomber who might feel justified in his act, by trying to go to heaven bombing sinners. Concerts ended, record labels vanished, and musicians started doing other jobs. I recall being very shocked in learning that a very famous pak rock star now runs a dollar store in the US[2]; the money vanished and his life was effectively at risk, he had mouths to feed, so he migrated. ---- life in Pakistan has become a race to get out. There is a general feeling of inability for people to fix things, of things just just never getting better. ---- [1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDt0aJO-jNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDt0aJO-jNk [2]: https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/living-the-dream-pakistani-rock-star-moves-to-scranton-opens-dollar-store/article_ad914efd-fc1e-53b6-ba77-f1b314f219f5.html https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/living-the-dream-pakis...