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Dancing Girls of the Swat Valley | World Policy Institute
Seeded on Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:24 PM EDT (World Policy Journal)
Both the Taliban and radicalized Pakistani society consider performers to be sinners. In Pashtun areas, a singer or dancer is known as damor beghairat (a person without a sense of honor). “We don’t have any respect in this society.
Swat's Female Dancers Struggle With Taliban's Legacy - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2011
Seeded on Thu Aug 4, 2011 11:25 AM EDT (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
The Swat Valley was once the only place in Pakistan's Pashtun regions where women could pursue careers as singers and dancers. Then Taliban extremists banned all music after taking over in 2007.
Pakistani Singer's Call For Help Rises Above Floodwaters
Seeded on Thu Oct 7, 2010 1:04 PM EDT (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
Pakistan's flood-soaked plains are alive...with the sound of music. The voice of Zar Sanga, known as the queen of Pashto folk music, has been heard on radio stations and television channels throughout the country for the last 40 years.
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