It was a special night for Afghan musicians Homayoun Sakhi (rabab) and Salar Nader (tabla), who performed at Meany Hall Tuesday at the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division’s Visiting ...

PESHAWAR: Senior Afghan folk artist Barialay Wali has asked music buffs to ensure revival of traditional Pashto music along with quality poetry. He said that losing classics Pashto music traditions ...

After the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan in 1996, its ludicrously named Ministry of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested musicians, burned instruments, shredded tapes, ...

Three warring Afghan militia factions in Wardak Province put their disputes aside long enough in early 2002 to celebrate a feast together in the district of Chak. Hundreds gathered to hear the first ...

KABUL, August 15 (UNHCR) - His songs evoke the harsh beauty of his native Afghanistan, a country he fled more than 12 years ago, but they were composed in a green and tidy suburb of Toronto, Canada, ...