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Snuffing Music & Dance: The Taliban's Cultural Invasion

[Swat Valley] On a cold night in January, 2008, a group of militants hammered at the door of a popular Pashto dancer, Shabana, in Mingora, a city in the Swat district of Northwestern Pakistan.

Gunshots muffle Pashtu music in Pakistan's Swat valley

By Shaheen Buneri PESHAWAR: Once proud to be a promoter of rich Pashtu musical tradition through his music shop in Mingora, capital of Pakistan's terror-hit Swat valley, Alyas Khan is a disillusioned man today.

Zar Sanga--melody queen of Pashto

By Shaheen Buneri Music can not be expressed in words not because it is vague but it is more precise than words. It is an international language and the shared legacy of the whole humanity.

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