The music of Pakistan includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music as well as music from South Asia, Persian music, Turkish music, Arabic music as well as more modern American music influences. With the multiple influences, Pakistani music has emerged as a "fusion" of many other types of sounds together to form a distinctly Pakistani sound.

The popular traditional music of Pakistan include the following:

Qawali
Qawwali is the devotional music of the Chishti Sufis. Originally performed mainly at Sufi shrines throughout the subcontinent, it has also gained mainstream popularity

Ghazals
Ghazal is a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. . Ghazals are traditionally expressions of love, separation and loneliness, for which the gazelle is an appropriate image.

Folk Music
Pakistani folk music deals with subjects surrounding daily life in less grandiose terms than the love and emotion usually contained in its traditional and classical counterpart. In Pakistan, each province has its own variation of popular folk music.

Pop & Rock Music
Pakistan music today has a rich blend of classical and Pakistani folk music with western sounds. Pakistan music industry consists of a lot of world renowned pop and rock bands.