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Pakistan and Sweden held the 18th round of Bilateral Political Consultations in Islamabad on 26 June 2024. Additional Foreign Secretary (Europe), Ambassador Shafqat Ali Khan, led the Pakistani side, while the Swedish side was headed by Ambassador Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt, Director General and Head of the Global Department of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The two sides reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral cooperation covering political relations, trade and investment, education, and people-to-people contacts. Expressing satisfaction at the trajectory of Pakistan-Sweden relations, the two sides agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation and to forge a broad-based relationship anchored in robust economic cooperation. The Swedish side also briefed the Pakistani side on the steps...

The launch of the album is being supported in part by the British Council. A new album of unheard recordings by the Pakistan musical icon Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan will be released on 20 September 2024, 34 years after they were recorded. The ‘lost album’ — named Chain of Light was discovered in the tape archives of Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records, the label that signed Khan in 1989 and released a series of universally acclaimed albums with him throughout the 1990s. The launch of the album is being supported in part by the British Council. Joined by his eight-strong party of singers and musicians, Chain of Light presents four traditional qawwalis (Sufi Islamic devotional songs) including one which has never been heard before and captures Khan at the height of his vocal capabilities i...

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Eighteenth round of Bilateral Political Consultations between Pakistan and Sweden

Real World Records to release ‘lost album’ by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan