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Amidst the dust and splendor, the city glows. Lost in the tumult of motorcycles and smoky cars, Kabul, the once-Eden of the East, rests on 3,000 years of history and glamour by the Hindu Kush mountains; a glamour that has been lost for decades due to Soviet and American invasions and civil war. Yet, from the ruins of destruction, dawn dreams: dreams of a peaceful morrow, of a land that whispers a promising future. Kabuldreams.

Afghanistan has nurtured, in the past half century, countless controversial figures, from Hamid Karzai and Khaled Hosseini to Ahmad Zahir and Omar Akram. Kabul Dreams is a young ensemble blooming on the same grounds. Being the first modern punk rock band in Afghanistan, the group – formed in 2008 by lead guitartist and singer Sulyman Qardash, along with Mujtaba Habibi (their former drummer), and bassist Siddique Ahmed – introduced its own idiosyncrasy of criticism and discontent following the rule of the Taliban, during which music was banned.

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