Kidnappers were Pashto-speaking: Sarabjit’s lawyer

The belief in superstitious customs and traditions is not unique to the Pashtun culture; as a matter of fact, they are a common phenomenon. These superstitions are a product of historical, regional, economical, and social conditions that have ...

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A 17-year-old from New York has learned 23 different languages, including Hindi, Pashto, South Africa's little-known isiXhosa, Gambia's Wolof, and the native American language of Ojibwe. In addition to the expected European languages — French, ...

"Is he a Pakhtun?,"* an ailing 89-year-old Khan Abdul Wali Khan asked his son Sangeen Wali in Pashto as he began to inquire about the identity of this writer. Lying on his bed in his ancestral Wali Bagh residence, he repeated his question in a ...

When future generations ask who silenced Pashtun music, the Taliban won't get the blame — piracy will. The pirates are easily identifiable — they are the young men armed with laptops who can be found on street corners throughout northwestern ...

M. Haleem Asad TIMERGARA: Pashto poets, writers and intellectuals were urged to utilize their creativity for reformation of society and promotion of love, peace and harmony among youth. The Malakand Literary Club (MLC), University of Malakand, in ...

PESHAWAR, March 31: The urs of renowned Pashto Sufi poet Abdul Rahman Baba will be observed on April 1. Rahman Baba was a member of the Khalil Muhmand (Bahader Kalay) sub-tribe of Pakhtuns, a group that originally migrated from Kandahar to Peshawar ...

Peshawar, March 30: Pakistani actress Musarrat Shaheen, known for her raunchy dances in Pashto movies, will be contesting against Maulana Fazlur Rahman from Dera Ismail Khan constituency for the National Assembly. Musarrat's presence in the electoral ...

Rasool and other Afghan villagers have their own name for Predator drones. They call them benghai, which in the Pashto language means the "buzzing of flies." When they explain the noise, they scrunch their faces and try to make a sound that ...