Thursday, July 15, 2010

A Pakistani artisan makes classical music instrument

A Pakistani artisan makes classical music instrument �tabla� (hand drums) at a musical shop in Lahore on July 15, 2010. Pakistan has seen creeping religious conservatism for years. Its military is fighting to put down Taliban militants in the northwest and lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, albeit far from cities populated by the moderate elite. Extremists have blown up hundreds of music and DVD shops in the northwest, branding them against Islam and forcing traders to display pro-Taliban tirades against the United States to gruesome clips of beheadings and bomb attacks. Lahore, a city of eight million near Pakistan's border with India, has been increasingly subject to Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked attacks in a nationwide bombing campaign that has killed more than 3,000 people in three years.
A Pakistani artisan makes classical music instrument 

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