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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 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 ...

Here’s a treat for all those you have been yearning to learn the Pashto language: ThePashto.com, an online dictionary which helps you translate from Pashto to English and English to Pashto. According ...

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.