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As Afghanistan adjusts to Taliban rule, music goes silent

Afghan music students participate in a music training session at a cultural and educational centre in Kabul March 7, 2014. [Reuters]

Even before the last US flight left Kabul at midnight on Monday, many of the bright and garish sights and sounds of city life in Afghanistan were changing as those left behind tried to fit in with the austere tone of their new Taliban rulers.

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