Afghanistan’s all-female orchestra is hoping to revive music banned under the Taliban

Members of Zohra - Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestral ensemble - will take to the stage for two special performances in Melbourne and Sydney.

During Afghanistan’s bloody thirty-year civil war, the sound of music was one of the first casualties.

Freedom of expression was censored by successive brutal regimes and musicians were often imprisoned and tortured.

For five years in the late 1990s, music was …