Organisers of the festival in the province of Sindh say they have had to cut the 10-day festival
Sufi music and dance have been the main features of the festival and organisers said that without this it cannot proceed.
The JUI-F ruled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) from 2002 until 2007.
During its rule there the party carried out a sustained campaign against musicians, dancers and cable operators in the province and in adjoining tribal areas, forcing most of them either to give up their business or flee into exile.
the group has also been asserting its control in rural areas of the southern provinces of Sindh and Balochistan - the traditional bases of support for secular nationalist groups.
JUI-F obtained restraining orders from a local court to force a local television channel, Sindh TV, to abandon a music show
satellite dishes, cable TV and VCRs are described as "three signs of the approaching doomsday".
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