Pashto has around 60 million native speakers and around 35 million people in Pakistan speak the language, yet the Pashto film and drama industry is unable to grow due to poor scripts, indecent content ...

New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has drawn praise from Pashtuns around the world after prominently honoring the ...

The regional government of Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province has formally approved the teaching of the Pashto language as a compulsory subject in schools, RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports. The ...

LAHORE: They may have been associated with bulky women dancing to please angry men but the cultural impact of Pashto films seems to be a lot bigger than our stereotypical understanding of this ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], October 21 (ANI): In a recent crackdown against one of Pakistan's largest ethnic minorities, the Pakistan Army has banned Pashto in its Army Public Schools, reported ...

A projectionist lies asleep in the sweltering Pakistani heat, his face covered by a cloth. A colleague rewinds a reel manually while on screen, through the hashish smoke, a woman bounces on a bed ...

Ghazala was born in the Swat valley which fell to Taliban rule in 2007. When Taliban captured her home town, she was forced to migrate 170 kilometers away with her family to the city of Peshawar.

Peshawar [Pakistan], February 23 (ANI): The intellectuals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have urged the Pakistan government to declare Pashto as the medium of instruction in schools. According to a report by ...

The BBC Pashto TV programme BBC Naray Da Wakht (BBC World Right Now) will be part of the daily schedule of Pakistan’s new Pashto-language channel, Mashriq TV, which starts broadcasting on Sunday 14 ...

The incident took place at Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the actress, Reshma, was living at her parents’ home following differences with her husband A popular Pakistani Pashto stage ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Popular Pashto-language singer Ghazala Javed has been shot dead along with her father in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Local authorities said Javed's husband, whom ...

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 ...