Nowadays Haroon - who has released many albums and frequently used to appear on Pashtu radio and television - is effectively in exile.

BBC: Musicians flee Taleban for NYC

Those who cannot get out simply announce their retirement from the profession like the Pashtu singer Gulrez Tabassum who recently said that he would not sing anymore after receiving threats from the militants.

BBC: Musicians flee Taleban for NYC

All of his languages, English, Dari, and Pashtu, sounded like "moosh, moosh, moosh, " and he had the affectation of pursing his lips when he spoke, giving the impression that he was blowing kisses to the listener.

NPR: Sergeant Notes Odd Rituals of War in Afghanistan

Six times a week, thousands of local boys and girls sometimes together, more often separately gather in scores of village mosques across the district at the break of dawn, sitting through 90 minutes of math and Afghanistan's national languages of Pashtu and Dari.

WSJ: Emboldened Taliban Try to Sell Softer Image

The manuscripts are written in many languages from the Oriental peoples, such as Uzbek, Arabic, Persian, Tajik, Urdu, Pashtu, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur and then translated in different at different periods, showing us the interrelations of the people, enhanced by the Silk Road.

UNESCO: CULTURE