“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: 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 ...

AMIR Hamza Khan Shinwari, or Hamza Baba as he is known, started writing poetry in Urdu when he was only in grade five. But his spiritual guide, Syed Abdul Sattar Shah Baacha, asked him to switch to ...

Landi Kotal, Pakistan, Feb 19 : Noted Pashto poet and writer Murad Shinwari died of multiple medical problems in his home in Khyber Agency on Saturday. He was 85, reports Dawn. He was laid to rest in ...

Rahman Baba is one of the most illustrious Pashto poets. His poetry has been inspiring people for almost four centuries. He is the Rumi of Pashto literature in that his is about humanity, peace, love ...

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 ...

PESHAWAR: Pashto poet Aitbaar Gul, who was shot dead in Islamabad, was laid to rest in his village in Shah Dhand on Wednesday. He was 45. It is difficult to map out Gul’s literary journey without ...

29th of May is International Pashto Language Day. It is celebrated every year by different groups and organisations across the world.I have conducted an interview with Pashto language poet and writer ...

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love. "Like a ...

Foreword -- Preface -- Editors' note -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Introductory Chapters -- Stepping inside: culture through the windows of art and literature / Arley Loewen -- Guided tour of ...