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Balochi: For Balochi, a language spoken on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghan border, Badalkan gives a number of Balochi proverbs translated into English in his article, focusing on proverbs that are related to specific stories (2000). He also cites several published collections of Balochi proverbs, all published in Balochi.
The book won the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. [6] Tess Taylor described the book's poetry in NPR as feeling "both anonymous and universal" and commented on the window it offered to the lives of women living in Afghanistan. [7] The book was described as a "rich and graceful collection" by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. in the Harvard Review.
According to Article 20 of the Afghan constitution, the national anthem shall be in Pashto with the mention of "God is Greatest" as well as the names of the ethnicities in Afghanistan. [15] The lyrics were written by Abdul Bari Jahani, and the music was written by German–Afghan composer Babrak Wassa . [16]
This nasheed was commonly used in the opening credits of the broadcasts by Da Shariat Zhagh ('Voice of Sharia'), the Taliban's official radio station, since the late 1990s, when the group controlled most of the Afghanistan territory, as well as in the videos published by the Taliban's Commission of Cultural Affairs. It was also used during ...
Poetry in foreign languages such as English and Turkic also has a strong influence on Afghan poetry. The poetry reflects diverse spiritual traditions within the country. In particular, many Afghan poets have been inspired by mystical and Sufism experiences. Afghan poetry is the oldest form of literature and has a rich written and oral tradition.
The Kabul real estate agent is selling a nine-bedroom, nine-bath, white-and-gold villa in the Afghan capital. On the roof's gable, glittering Arabic script tempts buyers and brokers with the word ...
The borrowed words should be written the way they were in the original languages: بُلْبُل bulbul "nightingale", گُل or ګُل gul "flower". The phrase pә xayr "welcome", lit. "well, successfully" is written in two words in Afghanistan (پٙه خَیْر ), but often as a single word in Pakistan (پٙخَیْر ).
Pashtunwali (Pashto: پښتونوالی), also known as Pakhtunwali and Afghaniyat, [1] is the traditional lifestyle or a code of honour and tribal code of the Pashtun people, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, by which they live. Many scholars widely have interpreted it as being "the way of the Pashtuns" or "the code of life". [2]