Bradford has been named the Cultural City for 2025 on the prestigious occasion of Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Bradford`s population is 532,680. There are 106,536 people of Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi origin in all.

Of these 98,570 are Pakistanis, making up 20% of the population.

Desi food is central to the lives of Pakistanis and Bradford has around 50 Pakistani restaurants that offers desi foods like saalan (curries), desi chai or achaar lacing the air with familiar smells.

There are a large number of mosques in the city too.

Friday payers at the Jamia Islamia mosque.

There are two British-born Pakistanis Naaz Shah and Imran Hussain in the British Parliament, while there are about two dozen councillors.

So much so that Bradford is often called Bradistan, as seen in the legendary movie “East is East”.