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Music not a 'weapon': Afghan musician put out of work by Taliban ban on public performances / 369D2KR
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Wahid Nekzai Logari played in Afghanistan's national orchestra and performed concerts on the "sarinda", a traditional stringed instrument, but he is struggling to support his family after the Taliban government prohibited public performances of music, deeming it un-Islamic.
AFP spoke to musician Wahid Nekzai Logari as part of a special report across the country ahead of the third anniversary of the fall of Kabul on August 15. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES