Nerves and excitement filled the air as the students of music practiced playing their instruments: guitars, violins, flutes, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones and traditional Afghan instruments ...

Nerves and excitement filled the air as the students of music practiced playing their instruments: guitars, violins, flutes, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones and traditional Afghan instruments ...

Musicians faced threats, raids, and the destruction of their instruments. “Our homes were searched for what we had there,” says Faiz Muhammad Sakhki, an Afghan musician now living in Peshawar.

And now, they have begun to burn musical instruments. A guitar, a harmonium, a drum, amps, and speakers were recently set afire in the province of Herat, and posted online. The BBC quotes an ...

Afghan music school falls silent under Taliban ... A similar bonfire of instruments was organised by the Taliban on 19 July. Its government posted photos of the blaze on Twitter at the time ...