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'Happiest moment': Afghan music school head as 100 musicians flee country / V000_9P49YL
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The founder of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) speaks to AFP about the over 100 music students and teachers who have fled Afghanistan in a nail-biting flight from Kabul following the takeover of the country by the hardline Islamist Taliban. Escaping a crackdown on music by the country's new leaders, a total 101 members of Afghanistan's top musical institute landed in Doha on Monday evening, its founder and principal Ahmad Sarmast told AFP. He describes the moment that he knew the muscians were safe was one of his happiest. "I was crying endlessly and my family were crying together with me. And that was the happiest moment in my entire life." SOUNDBITES