Driven by the war in Afghanistan, instructors at four colleges are scrambling to offer traditional and distance-education courses in Pashto, a language virtually untaught in America but spoken by more ...
On 11 June, at the Defense Language Institute's Fort Campbell Language Training Detachment, 73 Soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division graduated from the 16-week Dari and Pashto program. When Gen.
What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...
"The Preparation and compiling of the Pashtu-Chinese dictionary has taken 36-years for me and I am hopeful that learning languages and boosting cultural relations will further enhance Sino-Afghan ...
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 ...