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Balkh University Title Change from Dari to Pashto Language Turns to a Matter of Concern and Public Reactions

13th March, 2022 · admin

8am: Legally and traditionally, public administrations and institutions’ signboards were labeled in three languages (Dari, Pashto, and English), but recently, the Taliban have taken the initiative of removing and replacing Dari language from the signboards and official communications within the government offices and departments. This is not only against the law but has raised public

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Dari, Ethnic descrimination, Life under Taliban rule, Pashto, Pashtunization, Taliban ethnically cleansing Northern Afghanistan |
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Hekmatyar Reacts to Calls for Renaming Afghanistan Back to Khorasan

1st June, 2018 · admin · 16 Comments

Ariana:  “Some individuals shamelessly say we don’t accept the name of Afghanistan and want to change it to Khorasan. Khorasan is a province in Iran. There is no one to hold them accountable and give them a lesson,” Hekmatyar said while speaking at a mosque in Kabul. Recently, Abdul Latif Pedram, leader of the National

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Political News | Tags: Abdul Latif Pedram, Farsi, Khorasan, Pashto, Pashtunization, Pashtuns, Tajiks |
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Afghanistan’s War of Words

10th May, 2016 · admin · 1 Comment

The Diplomat: Tensions are rising over the use of Afghanistan’s two official languages.  Pohantun (Pashto) or daneshgah (Persian), which of the two should be used as the word for “university” in Afghanistan? The Afghan constitution recognizes both Persian (Dari) and Pashto as the country’s official languages; in practice, however, there is less agreement on which of these

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Society | Tags: Dari, Farsi, Pashto |
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Google Translate Now Speaks Pashto

18th February, 2016 · admin

The Tribune (Pakistan): “With over 26 million Sindhi speakers, and over 43 million Pashto speakers around the world, speakers of these languages will now be able to type or handwrite a phrase on their phone or computer and it will be instantly translated into English, or vice versa,” Google announced on Thursday. Click here to read

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Posted in Art and Culture, Society | Tags: Pashto |

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