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 ...

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 ...

The 32nd death anniversary of renowned Pashto poet and writer Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari is being observed today. Shinwari was ...

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 ...

Eid-ul-Fitr celebration will be adorned with the screening of three Pashto films, promising to inject vitality into the regional film industry while offering a delightful blend of entertainment and ...

Pashto cinema is undergoing an identity crisis; it is now synonymous with buxom women with gyrating hips. Its audience is critical of these vulgar dance sequences and the days where these very films ...

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 ...

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 ...

Afghanistan faces one of the world’s lowest youth and adult literacy rates – a consequence of four decades of conflict, natural disasters and poverty that has profoundly impacted the country’s ...