Taliban may stop the music in Afghanistan

By Zeina Karam
Updated August 23 2021 - 5:16pm, first published 5:09pm
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has put in jeopardy a music school in Kabul.
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has put in jeopardy a music school in Kabul.

A few years after the Taliban were ousted in 2001, and with Afghanistan still in ruins, Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, on a mission: to revive music in the country of his birth.

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