The Girls Are Back in Town

February 13, 2004

Last month, TV audiences in Afghanistan witnessed something they haven't seen in more than a decade - female singers on their screens. Many Afghans are cheering the return of women to the airwaves, but Islamic groups, as well as the country's new Supreme Court, are outraged. Brooke talks to Washington Post correspondent Pamela Constable about the brouhaha.


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