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NEWS
16 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

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