{"id":46417,"date":"2022-07-14T19:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/afghan-artists-musicians-pakistan-crackdown-refugees-taliban"},"modified":"2022-07-14T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:19:39","slug":"harassed-here-too-afghan-artists-find-no-sanctuary-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46417","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Harassed here too\u2019: Afghan artists find no sanctuary in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians had hoped to keep their art alive after fleeing Taliban but now face crackdown on refugees<\/p>\n<p>Ajmal Haikalzada, 44, first became a refugee when his artist father left Afghanistan for Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s. In 2001, then a musician, he returned, singing and performing across the country of his birth after the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2001\/nov\/18\/terrorism.afghanistan\">toppled the Taliban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades later, he fled once again as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-is-an-earthquake-for-middle-east\">Taliban took over<\/a> Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/afghan-artists-musicians-pakistan-crackdown-refugees-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians had hoped to keep their art alive after fleeing Taliban but now face crackdown on refugeesAjmal Haikalzada, 44, first became a refugee when his artist father left Afghanistan for Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s. In 2001, th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417\/revisions\/46418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}