Music returns to Pakistan’s Peshawar

With help from the Pakistani government, music is slowly returning to the city of Peshawar, where the Taliban had banned musicians. The city has seen a continuing cycle of violence and destruction from Taliban fighters in the last decade, also putting at risk the livelihoods of musicians that support many families in Peshawar. “Life was too hard in the last couple of years when we were having no job. How can you play music when there is death and destruction everywhere?“ says Ahmad Gul, a 41-year-old Pash