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Lahore
is the core of Pakistan's media and Arts scene.
Pakistan's most prestigious Art college National
College of Arts is located here. Every year it
becomes the center for 'World performing Arts
festival' in which artists from dozens of countries
show off their talents'. This festival is managed by
the Peerzada group, which is also the largest
puppetry theater company in the Pakistan. Lahore is
also home to the country's developing fashion
industry supported by numerous designer outlets and
the country's most prestigious Fashion school, the
Pakistan school of Fashion and Design which has some
of the best photo studios and Photographers in the
country.
Lahore
has also been home to Pakistan's old classical
music, ghazels and Qawalis, with Big names such as
Noor jehan, arif lohar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mehdi
hassan, Ghulam Ali etc all residing in the city. In
recent years Lahore has given out Pakistan's largest
pop singer such as Atif Aslam and Ali Zafar, while
the city is recognized as the birth place of modern
rock scene in south Asia by bands such as Jal, Call
the band, Roxen, Noori and Entityparadigm, which
were hugely popular and lead many in the Indian film
industry to import their songs.
Pakistan'
film industry is also based in the city and is
called Lollywood. Many films are filmed in Lahore
and the city has some of the oldest film studios in
the country. Many actors, directors are based in
Lahore which bring many artists together to launch
films. Cinema is on the incline again in recent
years and IMAX is also building outlets in the city.
Lahore
is developing into the media hub of Pakistan.
Several FM Radio stations have setup their
operations here and some of the TV channels are also
working from this city. Adding to this media boom,
City News Network (Pvt.) Ltd. is brining Pakistan's
first City specific satellite TV channel. They are
launching a City Channel of Lahore with the name
City42. City42 will be a satellite channel beaming
its broadcast to entire Pakistan, Asia, Middle East
and some European countries. City42 will be a NEWS
and INFOTAINMENT based channel covering everything
that happens in the city of Lahore.
Lahore
is also home to Geo TV's Infotainment Division and
the headquarters of Pakistan's first Kids television
Channel Wikid and the first community Channel of
Pakistan for [DHA].
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