“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: Renowned Pashto poet Professor Abaseen Yousafzai launched his third poetry collection Maraam on Thursday after a gap of more than 10 years. To formally launch the book, literary organisation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

If one voice could embody the glory, paradox and misfortune of greater Kandahar, Afghanistan’s historic southern region, it would be the celebrated poet Abdul Bari Jahani. His seven collections of ...

Prominent poets and notable literary figures from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa attended the 25th death anniversary of renowned Pashto poet Amir Hamza Khan here in Landi Kotal, on Sunday. Khyber Pashto Adabi ...