Sadly, at least twelve persons were killed in a suicide attack two hours ago in Rawalpindi.  One ‘war’ has effectively ended, but another goes on.

Nonetheless, celebration of the win in the first old war continues.

Right now in neighboring Islamabad, GEO News is hosting a concert by the band Laal to mark the restoration of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.

The music of Laal, I believe, was the soundtrack to the lawyers movement.

The four-member band is very interesting.  Its lead is a classically-trained singer, who is also a Ph.D. student in economics at Oxford.  Another group member is in a doctoral program at SOAS.  Others in the group are also accomplished.

Pakistan has had a good deal of political music.  But Laal seems to be the most overtly political.

Band members are all socialists.  They put to song poems by anti-establishment leftists, such as Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Habib Jalib.

But, despite their socialist orientation, they teamed up with the paragon of Pakistani commercialism, GEO and its parent entity, the Jang Group.

The site has free MP3 clips of their ten tracks.