PESHAWAR: Despite deep decline in cinema culture, film producers and investors take courage to screen Pashto movies today, the first day of Eidul Fitr, to carry on the legacy of entertaining the cine ...

Driven by the war in Afghanistan, instructors at four colleges are scrambling to offer traditional and distance-education courses in Pashto, a language virtually untaught in the United States but ...

Pashto and other regional languages may appear to be thriving with millions speaking it as their mother tongue, but there is another more important aspect to a living language: its place in education; ...

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 ...

RECENTLY, Pakhtun grammarians, language experts and writers from universities in Peshawar and Kabul came together in a two-day seminar called ‘Asanah Pashto’ in Kabul to develop easy or functional ...

Despite being our primary source of communication with the outside world, language is often taken for granted. It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, according to a National Geographic ...

The Taliban’s anti-Persian stance is rooted in their educational and cultural background, but also reflects a longstanding desire by successive Afghan governments to displace the Persian language.

The status of the Dari and Pashto languages has always been a sensitive issue in Afghanistan. Both Dari -- also called Farsi -- and Pashto belong to the Indo-European family of languages. Pashto is ...

Renowned Pashto comedian Mirawas breathed his last after a prolonged illness at a hospital in Mardan on Thursday. According to hospital sources, Mirawas had been battling serious health issues for a ...