Ali Zafar appears to have given up hope of seeing his debut film - Tere Bin - ever releasing in Pakistan.

Avenues for actors in Peshawar seem limited to the infamous CD films that have proliferated the province.

Peshawar’s talented musicians struggle to make themselves heard in an unfriendly market.

Arbab Mohammad Sardar’s leafy house in Landi Arbab, a Peshawar suburb, is a testament to his devotion to art.

“Our family has been doing this for 200 years,” says rabab-maker Mushtaq Hussain.

It does not take much for Pakistani music fans to get into an uproar.

Despite large Pashto-speaking population in Pakistan, the most promising market for Pashto singers is in Afghanistan.

On March 5, 2009, a bomb attack targeted Rahman Baba’s mazaar, in the outskirts of Peshawar, in Hazarkhwani.