Musicians fear misery if they return to Afghanistan

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KARACHI: Classic singer from Afghanistan, Stad Nadeem Bakhwans, bribed Pakistani police to avoid deportation after raiding his house in Rawalpindi.

But he worries about a bribe of Rs 50,000, or about $ 175, he has only bought a 14 -time family. “I do not know how long we will be safe here before we are forced to go to another city or return to Afghanistan,” Bashar told the author on a two -room house in Peshawar near the Afghan border, where his family moved after the raid last month.

Baksh is one of the thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan who have been hiding or leaving the Pakistani government on March 7, when Afghans were ordered without official permission to leave the country by the end of the month. Afghan musicians have faced the anger of the Taliban, who follow the strong interpretation of Islam, because they seized power in 2021. Music has been banned, and authorities have destroyed the equipment, closed music schools and attacked musicians. If they were sent back, they are afraid of imprisonment or violence.

Since the beginning of this year, more than a thousand Afghans have been detained and more than 20,000 have been forced to leave Pakistan, according to Monza Kakar, a Karachi -based human rights lawyer and head of the Joint Action Committee on Afghan Refugees. Pakistan treats Afghan refugees like “political football” to put pressure on the Afghan government, Cocker said. “Their stay in Pakistan depends on the political climate,” he said. “When relations are good, Pakistan expresses compassion, even allowing refugees to open a bank account, regardless of documents. But when the tensions between the two countries increase, they are brutally used as pedestrians.”

The Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Information did not respond to requests to comment on the return program.

52, for Baksh, returning home means to leave music breeds. It belongs to the Patiala family of Indian songs, which was founded by Ali Bush Khan, one of his leaders in the nineteenth century. “Music is in our blood,” he said. In 2022, the Taliban raided Bakhsh’s house and destroyed his equipment, then sent to jail and defeated him and his sons. Bashar said, “It was humiliating.” “We were told to give up music and instead sell vegetables on Pashkarts.”

Nadeem’s 24 -year -old son and a Taiba player Nazim Bakhsh said that after fleeing Afghanistan, Bakhsh and his family lived without a visa, which cost more than $ 1,000, including a fee demanded by agents. Nazim said, “We have not even enough of our rent and food, leaving money for your visas.” Since the crackdown against Afghan refugees, Nadeem Bakhsh said he was no longer able to make music. “I need peace to do so,” he said.

26 -year -old Mohammad Yasir Hooda and his four men’s families were sent to jail after being sent to jail and attacked him for living in the party in 2022, where friends played music, after which he was sent to jail and attacked. Her family’s only bread eaten, Hweda had already lost his income as a teacher at his small music school when the Taliban destroyed its equipment in 2021. Hweda fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he can be killed. He said, “They hate me because I am Hazara, a Shiite minority that is known for everything our art, music and dance that the Taliban consider forbidden or forbidden.”

Taliban spokesman, Mohammad Sohail Shaheen, said Hazaris had no reason to fear the administration. He told the author that thousands “can live a normal life like other Afghans.” But he reiterated the Taliban’s position that “music is banned in Islam” and suggested that musicians “pursue other professions to contribute to the country”.

Once in Islamabad, Havida began teaching lessons in Guitar and Dombra, which was a long -neck wire tool paid by thousands. All this is except ending, save some online classes that they keep giving. Hauda said, “His students, most of whom have abandoned the lessons, since Pakistan started its crackdown on immigrants, many people were either deported or detained or afraid to come out of hiding, adding that they have a safe haven in Pakistan, but they have kept Pakistan in Pakistan.” “You can’t even imagine how to be in a constant fear of being deported,” he said. “If you take away the music from me, it would be like removing my soul.”