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NEWS16 January 2004 Woman singer angers Afghan judges Afghanistan's supreme court has complained to the government over the appearance of an Afghan woman singing on state television "This has to be stopped," Deputy Chief Justice Fazel Ahmed Manawi told the Reuters news agency. Story from BBC; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3396283.stm Read more: Afghanistan: They play rock music in Afghanistan - and get away with it The multinational rock trio White City from Kabul explains what it involves to play rock music in today's Afghanistan 15 August 2011 Afghanistan: Witnessing a resurge in music Pashto music can now be heard in almost every nook and corner of Afghanistan, reported PRlog 24 November 2010 Afghanistan and Pakistan: Understanding the Taliban's campaign against music Ethnomusicologist John Baily and Freemuse executive director Marie Korpe speak about the Taliban’s campaign against music and musicians in Afghanistan and Pakistan 23 June 2009 Afghanistan: Music programmes lead to arrest 0n 24 March 2009, Afghanistan’s attorney general office arrested the manager of Amroz TV because of the station's broacast of certain music programmes 25 March 2009 Afghanistan: Short video about music and 'community censorship' In a short documentary video about music and 'community censorship' in Afghanistan, the 19-year-old Afghan singer Mariam says she gets verbal abuse all the time 14 July 2008 Afghanistan: Singing ban is illegal, says governor During Music Freedom Day 2008, governor Ata Mohammed Noor announced that he would try to solve the problem with the ban preventing male artists from singing at weddings 04 March 2008 Afghanistan - special report: The cage is singing Freemuse Special Report, 'The cage is singing', is an in-depth report with ten video interviews and a book about music censorship in Afghanistan - past and present 25 February 2008 Afghanistan / UK: Film festival celebrates banned music A film festival in Edingburgh entitled 'Reel Afghanistan' celebrates the Afghan art form which was banned by the Taliban: music 18 February 2008 Afghanistan: Female musicians put their lives in danger A report from a music school in Kabul is a story about the kind of difficulties and dangers female musicians face in present day Afghanistan. They must work in secret 15 January 2008 Afghanistan: Bomb hits music shop A bomb exploded in a music shop in a small town in Eastern Afghanistan and hurt the shopkeeper 23 October 2007