Because of his prominence in Pashto literature and poetry, he was officially requested by the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai to write the Afghan National Anthem in late 2006.
Central Pashto has been developed by the National Radio & Television of Afghanistan and the Academy of Sciences of Kabul.
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However, Pashto is widely written in Latin script outside Afghanistan by the 2nd and 3rd generation of Pashtun refugees many of whom never learned how to read and write the Perso-Arabic based Pashto alphabet.
Article 16 of the constitution states that "from amongst Pashto, Dari, Uzbeki, Turkmani, Baluchi, Pashai, Nuristani and other current languages in the country, Pashto and Dari shall be the official languages of the state."
Other languages spoken in the UAE, due to immigration, include Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Pashto, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Balochi, Russian, Somali language, Tagalog, Nepali and Mandarin Chinese.
Dr. Mirranay is the official spokesperson for the Afghan Mellat Party and speaks both official Afghanistan languages, Pashto and Dari, as well as English.
Scholars believe that the language featured elements from the languages native to the area (pre-Indo-European population) which are related to the Indo-Aryan family to which all prakrits belong, as well as Dardic and Iranian ethnic languages (i.e. Pashto) native to Peshawar.
The name "Ghor" is a cognate to Avestan gairi-, Sanskrit giri- and Middle Persian gar, in modern Persian koh-, Sogdian gor-/gur-, in later developed Bactrian language as g´wrao- (also paravata), meaning "mountain", in modern Pashto as ghar-, in Pamir languages as gar- and ghalcca- ("mountain").
Mokhtar has translated a biography of the Pashto poet Kabir Stori into English.
Iranian languages, a group of 87 individual languages including Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, Lurish, and Balochi.
The term is Persian, (also used in Pashto and Urdu) and refers to the concept of Dar-ul-Islam.
After establishing his name on the local radio, in 1973–74 Khyal Mohammad appeared in his first movie, Dara-i-Khyber, one of the first "Pollywood" Pashto movies.
A recent poll conducted in Kabul named Manija (among Persian speakers) and Nazia Iqbal (among Pashto speakers) as the most popular female singers in that country.
His letter to Abdul Rauf Benawa regarding the importance of language for the nation and the responsibilities of writers and leaders towards their language was published in a fifty three pages essay by Pashto Tolana (Pashtu Gathering), in Kabul.
From 1994 to 1996, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Peshawar, Peshawar in Pashto Department.
The Murghāb River (Persian/Pashto: مرغاب), also called Margos, Margu and Margiana River (Old Greek: Μαργιανή), and also transliterated as Murgab (from Russian Мургаб) and Murgap (from Turkmen), is an 850 km long river in Central Asia.
In any of the past tenses (simple past, past progressive, present perfect, past perfect), Pashto is an ergative language; i.e., transitive verbs in any of the past tenses agree with the object of the sentence.
Some other magazines which have their own fundamental and historical place in Pashto journalism are Qand, Adal, Qandeel and Tamas.
Plārina is related to the Bactrian impression of Plār, which derives from Old Iranian piðar (in Bactrian and Pashto, Old Iranian /ð/ usually yields /l/), and is related to Sanskrit pidar and English "father".
He professed that the script be a 19th century copy of an anthology of Pashto poetry written in 1729 in Kandahar by Shah Hussain Hotak.
They speak Urdu or the Bhopali dialect of Hindustani made famous by actor Jagdeep in the film Sholay; certain individuals still have a limited knowledge of Pashto.
There are over 25 original hand-written manuscripts of the Dīwān scattered in various libraries worldwide, including ten in the Pashto Academy in Peshawar, four in the British Library, three in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, as well as copies in the John Rylands Library in Manchester, the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the University Library Aligath.
In Peshawar, satyagraha was led by a Muslim Pashto disciple of Gandhi, Ghaffar Khan, who had trained 50,000 nonviolent activists called Khudai Khidmatgar.
Shahi Bagh (Pashto, Urdu: شاهي باغ) is one of the oldest and largest gardens in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Shams kept a close friendly relationship with Pakhtun Nationalist Parties and Pashto literary organizations of Pakistan, especially Pakhtunkhwa Qawmi Party of Afzal Khan Lala.
Hindi, English, Nepali, Bangla, Pashto, Urdu, Sinhala, Dzongkha and Dhivehi .
Takht-e-Sulaiman Solomon's Throne (Urdu , Pashto : تخت سليمان, from Persian : "Solomon 's throne") peak in Balochistan