Afghanistan, Taliban drag and kill well-known traditional singer into the street

The Taliban “brutally killed” Fawad Andarabi a singer known throughout Afghanistan. “He brought only joy to his valley and his people,” former Afghan Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi said on Twitter, denouncing his killing. The Taliban dragged the singer out of his home and killed him, in the city of Andarab, in the southern part of the province of Baghlan. Read also “The brutality of the Taliban continues in Andarab. Today they brutally killed a folkloric singer, Fawad Andarabi, who was simply bringing joy to this valley and its people. Like here where ‘our beautiful vale, land of our fathers’ sings. We will not submit to the brutality of the Taliban “, tweeted the former minister, attaching a video of the slain singer. An elderly man is seen crouched on a carpet spread out on the lawn of a mountain valley, singing and playing a traditional instrument. Next to him a boy with another Afghan musical instrument.