Falak, a group of Pakistani-Canadian rockers are making waves in their homeland with their music video depicting images related to the 9/11 attacks in New York.

MTV Pakistan has decided against airing the group’s music video, deeming it too controversial.

That in turn has pushed Falak’s recognition factor and garnered media interviews for this relatively unknown group.

The Toronto Star described the music video saying it is like many other hard rock videos, with a female silhouette dancing amid strobes and smoke before cutting away to the streets of New York City.

Then four words appear: Based on tragic events.

A south Asian man, looking shattered after a long night of drinking, exits a cab. And then controversy begins – flashbacks to flying lessons, farewell videos and letters, open maps, airport security screening and takeoff. Perhaps the most infamous image of this century concludes the video, when the plane punctures the second World Trade Center tower.

The imagery is for the song “Yadein II,” which means “memories’.

Falak was supposed to open a park concert for some of Pakistan’s biggest acts in front of thousands this month, but organizers abruptly cancelled the event after MTV decided not to air the video, a report said.

The Toronto-based rockers describe themselves as a band with a cause that talks about social justice and corruption.

As can be expected with groups like this, they have a anti-George W. Bush song, “Blood for Oil.”

The banner on their website states “I think therefore I resist”

The band comprises frontman Farid Khan, who has just been laid off from his HR job in Toronto and is spending time in Karachi capitalising on the buzz created by his 9/11 music video, drummer Zaed Maqbool, guitarist Siddiq Mohammad, a banker temporarily based in Dubai, bassist Shibil Siddiqi, who is currently in Afghanistan doing development work and keyboardist Raheel Gauba who is a software developer in the U.S.

The group came together five years ago and has done numerous gigs in Toronto’s club scene.

They hope to complete their first album by the end of March.

By the way, Falak in Arabic means an “omnipotent serpent that is so great that, were it not for fear of Allah, it would swallow all creation.”

Let’s just hope the boys don’t bite off more than they can chew.