Former Afghan Minister Says Taliban Killed Folk Singer in Baghlan Province

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Taliban (a terrorist group, banned in Russia) has killed folk music singer Fawad Andarabi in Afghanistan's northeastern Baghlan province, the country's former interior minister, Masoud Andarabi, said.

According to a Sputnik source in the province, Taliban militants kicked the singer out of his house in the Andarab district and killed him.

Taliban’s brutality continues in Andarab. Today they brutally killed folkloric singer, Fawad Andarabi who simply was brining joy to this valley and its people. As he sang here “our beautiful valley….land of our forefathers…” will not submit to Taliban’s brutality. pic.twitter.com/3Jc1DnpqDH

— Masoud Andarabi (@andarabi) August 28, 2021

​Earlier in the week, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid indicated in an interview with the New York Times that the movement may ban music in public as it is said to be forbidden in Islam, although the official insisted that the Taliban will opt for persuasion rather than pressure.

The Islamist movement already has a history of clamping down on music during the first time they governed Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001.