Under the Taliban Regime, Afghanistan Enjoys Peace for Once

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The street cafés of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the heart of Kabul’s government neighborhood, used to put Afghan pop music in full volume to attract a multitude of gossip-aviding officials. Now there is no music in them, or anywhere else. It is forbidden. Men rush down the street dressed in the traditional shalwar kameez and wearing long beards. Where there was a colorful mural before, there is now a giant slogan in Dari, the local Persi…