PESHAWAR: Fans were accustomed to seeing stage artist and dancer Neelam Gul wearing heavy makeup, colourful costumes and dancing to traditional Pashto tunes under the spotlight for the entertainment ...

In a further sign that the U.S. military wants to forget that the Afghanistan War ever happened, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California will cease teaching ...

AMIR Hamza Khan Shinwari, or Hamza Baba as he is known, started writing poetry in Urdu when he was only in grade five. But his spiritual guide, Syed Abdul Sattar Shah Baacha, asked him to switch to ...

“What tyrant has attacked my mountains this year/ When I go to shovel the snow, I pick up only blood.” This verse from a recent Pashto poem written by Mukhtar Orakzai, translated into English, best ...

THE publication of Pashto books, ranging from poetry and short stories to current affairs and travelogues, has witnessed a considerable surge in the last decade as the land of Pakhtuns has been focus ...

A series of 12 articles and podcasts in both Pashto and Dari delivered by SBS in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan has garnered a major award at the 2022 NSW Premier’s ...

During a senior leader engagement at the Joint Readiness Training Center, in Louisiana, an Afghan role player meets with an Army adviser and a military linguist. (Army) The Army is cutting its ...