“Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents’ homeland.” “There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation,” he sang.
A video online showed him at one performance, sitting on a rug with the mountains behind him. The Taliban banned music as un-Islamic when they last ruled the country.Īndarabi played the ghichak, a bowed lute, and sang traditional songs about his birthplace, his people and the country.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said his group would investigate the shooting, without providing any further information. The Taliban say they have retaken the region, which is near mountainous Panjshir, the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces not under Taliban control. The shooting happened in the Andarabi Valley, for which the family is named, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kabul, where the Taliban battled local fighters even after seizing the capital. “He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people,” his son, Jawad, said. Fawad Andarabi’s family said the Taliban shot him for no reason, just days after they had searched his home and drank tea with him. The shooting of a folk singer in a tense region north of Kabul was bound to contribute to such fears. But many Afghans distrust the group, and there have been reports of summary executions and other human rights abuses in areas under Taliban control. and its allies, and say they want to restore peace and security after decades of war. The Taliban have pledged amnesty for all Afghans, even those who worked with the U.S. Others fear revenge attacks or general instability. Tens of thousands of Afghans have sought to flee the country since the Taliban’s rapid takeover earlier this month, fearing a return to the harsh form of Islamic rule the group imposed on Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. The Taliban have given similar assurances in recent days, even as they have urged Afghans to remain and help rebuild the war-ravaged country. was working with other countries to ensure that the airport functions normally after the withdrawal and that the Taliban allow people to travel freely.
In interviews with Sunday talk shows, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. does not currently plan to have an ongoing embassy presence after the withdrawal but will ensure “safe passage for any American citizen, any legal permanent resident” after Tuesday, as well as for “those Afghans who helped us.” has the capacity to evacuate the estimated 300 Americans who remain in the country and wish to leave. military cargo planes continued their runs into the airport Sunday, ahead of a Tuesday deadline set by President Joe Biden to withdraw all American troops.īiden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said the U.S. allies concluded theirs earlier in the week. The Taliban increased security around the airport after Thursday’s attack, clearing away the large crowds that had gathered outside the gates hoping to join the airlift.īritain ended its evacuation flights Saturday, and most U.S. The U.S.-led invasion in 2001 came in response to the 9/11 attacks, which al-Qaida planned and executed while being sheltered by the Taliban. The Taliban have fought against the IS affiliate in the past and have pledged to not allow Afghanistan to become a base for terror attacks.
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The Sunni extremists of IS, with links to the group’s more well-known affiliate in Syria and Iraq, have carried out a series of attacks, mainly targeting Afghanistan’s Shiite Muslim minority, including a 2020 assault on a maternity hospital in Kabul that killed women and newborns. President Joe Biden had vowed to keep up the airstrikes, saying Saturday that another attack was “highly likely.” The State Department called the threat “specific” and “credible.”
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