PESHAWAR: Pashto singer Sitara Younas despite being a Punjabi speaking girl from the Christian community scaled the heights of success and even outclassed some young Pashto singers owing to her inborn ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD: A US diplomacy official has written and sang a Pashto song “Jenaiy”, which means “girl”, as a tribute to Malala Yousufzai, the teenager who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting ...

Among the many lesser-known jewels in the sub-continental musical treasure chest you will find a bright and glimmering voice from Afghanistan. Known by his stage name, Nashenas, he is among the most ...

The BBC’s flagship radio news programmes for Afghan audiences are now rebroadcast live by Afghanistan’s national broadcaster, Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA). We are delighted that the new ...

A worker checks a strip of an old Pashto movie loaded into a projector at Arshad cinema in Peshawar. - Photo by Reuters PESHAWAR: A projectionist lies asleep in the sweltering Pakistani heat, his face ...