 When Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Islamabad, Pakistan, he performed then at an event in 2004.Akhtar Chanal Zahri reportedly has said in an interview, "The songs I hummed as a youngster watching my sheep, are embedded in my memory.Where I come from, when a child is born, the only two things he knows how to do are sing and cry – music is part of us from the very beginning".