“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 ...

LAHORE: Pashto cinema seemed to have finally taken a hit in 2016. The industry had been hanging by a thread for long enough and we were destined to see its downfall. In 2017, the situation remained ...

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 ...

PESHAWAR: The Pashto film industry commonly known as Pollywood has screened five Pashto movies full of thrill and romance on Eidul Fitr as compared to just three flicks last year. The struggling ...

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a ‘press show’ of a new Pashto movie here on Tuesday stressed the need for renovation of cinema theatres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to pave way for revival of Pashto cinema culture.

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 ...

SBS PashtoIndependent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Pashto-speaking Australians. SBS Learn EnglishEase into the English language and Australian culture. We make learning ...

The BBC News Afghanistan service in Pashto and Dari has launched a weekly radio programme, Women (Mermen in Pashto, and Zan in Dari). The 30-minute show will go on air at 19:00 Kabul Time in Dari and ...