AN AFGHAN rapper and a rock band who sang anti-Taliban hits are hiding for their lives -– after the militants murdered a -popular folk singer.
Guitarist Faisal, 26, sang about kissing girls round the back of the mosque and told fans: “Don’t be scared of the -Taliban.”
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The hipster musician fled his home after gunmen arrived on his doorstep and beat his brother
The hipster musician fled his home after gunmen arrived on his doorstep and beat his brother.
He told The Sun from a safe house: “If they find me they will kill me.”
Music was banned when the -Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001.
But a new generation of musicians have flourished over the past two decades.
But last week a Taliban spokesman said: “Music is forbidden in Islam.”
Days later the popular folk singer Tawab Andarabi was dragged from his home and fatally shot.
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Hessi, a rapper who fled in 2014, said: “I fear for my friends and family.”
Thousands flee Taliban-held Afghanistan walking miles through desert across Pakistan and into Iran