The Silent Music Street of Kharabat
The musicians silenced by the Taliban
‘We don’t know anything else but music, it was our only source of income’, says Qais, a singer. In Kharabat, the musical hub of the Afghan capital Kabul, musicians are unable to find work for fear of punishment. ‘We have to play the musical instruments in secret and hide them when we’re finished because the Taliban have forbidden us from keeping the instruments’, says Ashraf, a drummer.
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