Unesco-listed musical instrument stifled in Afghanistan


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An Afghan musician plays the rubab in Kabul, an instrument Unesco recognised in December as intangible cultural heritage in Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Photo: AFP

Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands.

Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools even as a Taliban crackdown strangles music in Afghanistan.

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