Pashto, or Pakhto, is a language that has its origins in the northeastern group of the Iranian languages; it is considered the language of the Pashtun people. It is believed that at least 10 million people speak Pashto. Not only is it one of the...

Iranian language in Afghanistan and Pakistan (about 10 million speakers), official language of Afghanistan. Characteristics: phonologically and morphologically more complicated than Persian, structured ergatively ( ergative language) in the preterite....

Pashto (پښتو‎, IPA: [pəʂ'to] also rendered as Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto پختو‎, Pashtoe, Pashtu, Pushtu, Pathani or Pushtoo, and also known as Afghani[4][5]) is a language spoken by Pashtuns living in Afghanistan and western...

Suspected Islamic militants shot dead a Pakistani tribesman whom they accused of spying for the United States in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a Pakistani intelligence official said.Villagers found the man's body by the side of a road near Satar Sarobi, a village south of...

Suspected Islamic radicals have issued a Taliban-style warning to barbers in a Pakistani border town not to shave off or cut their customers' beards, saying it offends Islam, residents said Monday.Pamphlets with the warnings were found at several shops in Inayat Kalay in Pakistan's Bajur...

Fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Omar pledged in a statement released Friday to drive foreign troops out of Afghanistan, as NATO and Afghan forces killed more than 10 of his fighters in the volatile south.The message from Omar _ the authenticity of which couldn't be immediately...

Fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Omar pledged to drive foreign troops out of Afghanistan in a statement released Friday, as NATO and Afghan forces killed more than 12 of his fighters in the volatile south.The purported message from Omar, the authenticity of which could not be...