Taliban Bomb Pushto Sufi Poet's Shrine


	Taliban Bomb Pushto Sufi Poet's Shrine

Gul Agha

3-7-2009 2:17 PM

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pakistan, afghanistan, islamists, sufism, human rights, poetry

Gul Agha says:

The Taliban war against local culture intensifies in the Pushtun belt.

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