Now the Taliban are turning off the music in conquered Afghanistan. At a wedding they killed 13 people who had heard music. The deposed Vice President Amrullah Saleh (49) reports on Twitter. Saleh wrote: “Taliban militiamen massacred 13 people to silence the music at a wedding reception in Nangarhar.”
The former Vice President describes himself as the “incumbent President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan”. He blames Pakistan for the alleged massacre.
Amrullah Saleh writes: “For 25 years, Pakistan trained the Taliban to destroy Afghan culture and replace it with fanaticism tailored to the secret service in order to control our country.” This regime will not last, “but unfortunately the Afghans will continue to pay a price for it until its demise”.
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No female voices on the radio
In late August, the Taliban banned music and female voices on television and radio in the Afghan city of Kandahar. On September 4, armed Taliban shut down loudly indiatoday.in the Afghanistan National Institute of Music.
Afghan folk singer and lute player Fawad Andarabi was reportedly shot dead by a Taliban fighter in the Andarabi Valley in the last week of August. In the first week of September, the Taliban destroyed two grand pianos and other musical instruments in the state recording studios in Kabul.
No better than before
In an interview with the “New York Times” Taliban spokesman Sabiullah Mujahid (43) said in August: “Music is forbidden in Islam. But we hope that we can convince people not to do such things instead of putting them under pressure. “
Agnes Callamard, 56, General Secretary of Amnesty International, tweeted: “The evidence is mounting that the Taliban will be just as intolerant, violent and repressive in 2021 as it was in 2001. After 20 years nothing has changed in this regard.” When the Taliban ruled for the first time between 1996 and 2001, music was banned in the country. (gf)
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