A music institute in Kabul is one of the many victims of the Taliban’s triumph. Now in exile, here are the budding musicians behind Afghanistan’s world-renowned all-female orchestra ZohraOrchestra
, but Kabul seemed a prize too far, and the United States' Aug. 31 deadline for withdrawing its forces still felt distant. Although everyone at the school had the Taliban’s past rule in mind — the proscriptions on music and dance, the, the harsh punishments for those who disobeyed — the musicians thought they had time, or could at least negotiate some modus vivendi after the U.S. eventually withdrew and the Taliban joined the government.
A few days before the U.S.-led evacuation effort of vulnerable Afghans was set to end, the students, their teachers and their relatives — almost 300 people — boarded buses for the airport. They had all the necessary clearances but hit a snag at a Taliban checkpoint because a commander was asleep. A few hours later, the Americans closed the airport gate. The students were sent back home.
“I used to have it with me everywhere. I still don’t know what happened to it. … Maybe the Taliban broke it,” she said.able to smooth things over
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