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 America but spoken by more ...

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 ...

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 ...

More Pashtuns live in Karachi than any other city in the world and they are concerned about their heritage It was the afternoon of September 24. A group of people -- both young and old -- gathered at ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

On 11 June, at the Defense Language Institute's Fort Campbell Language Training Detachment, 73 Soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division graduated from the 16-week Dari and Pashto program. When Gen.

"The Preparation and compiling of the Pashtu-Chinese dictionary has taken 36-years for me and I am hopeful that learning languages and boosting cultural relations will further enhance Sino-Afghan ...

Since 2001, Taliban militants operating in the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have destroyed as many as 800 music shops, according ...