APWA organises charity musical evening for Swat IDPs

LONDON: The UK Chapter of All Pakistan Women Association (APWA) organized a well attended fundraising musical event for displaced people of Swat entitled “Music for Swat” at the Pakistan High Commission here on Friday evening. The well-known singer-composer Raja Kaasheff, vocalist Attaullah Khan Essakheli, Rajab Ali and his son Saqib and Muhammad Arshad, son of later music director Muhammad Ashraf entertained the guests with a range of popular songs, ghazals and geet. Pakistan High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan while welcoming the guests spoke of the woes of the displaced persons of Swat and Malakand and urged the Pakistani British Diaspora to contribute generously towards the rehabilitation of the affectees