“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 ...

PESHAWAR: Pashto poetry is popularly known as relating to either love or war. Modern scholars, however, are starting to dig deeper to the ‘scientific core’ of Pukhtun verses. “This region’s classical ...

MARDAN: The department of Pushto, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) on Monday held a one day seminar to honourlate Dr Khaliq Zyar, a famous poet and philosopher of Pushto language and ...

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a function termed new collection of Pashto poetry titled ‘Maraam’ (target) as spirit of the time and voice of Pakhtuns. Pohantoon Adabi Stori (PAS), a literary organisation ...

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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 ...

During the 17th and early 18th century, three very prominent Pashto poets honoured what today is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. They were, in chronological order, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba ...

Since their rise in the late 1990s, the Taliban and likeminded groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region have launched an aggressive campaign against liberal ways of life, bombing music shops, ...

Not very long ago, within living memory, our lands still echoed with the footsteps of people who seemed carved from a different moral timbre. They spoke softly, lived simply, wrote fearlessly, and ...

A 20th-century poetic genius wrote about his people's struggles with modernity, ignorance, freedom and discrimination. Some of his popular poems were turned into songs and introduced generations of ...

Female poet Zarlasht Hafeez speaks of the "grief-stricken Pashtuns" The violence in Afghanistan and the Pashtun-inhabited parts of Pakistan is making itself felt on the cultural and social life of the ...

The 29th death anniversary of renowned Pashto poet, writer, novelist, translator and the father of Pashto ghazal Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari was observed. Amir Hamza Shinwari was born in Landi Kotal.