Nearly 90 per cent of Afghan males listen to the radio. Soon this young man will be able to listen to 'Talking Books' One Friday afternoon this spring, a friend led me to a low, dusty room in an ...

PESHAWAR: Reading habit among youth has shown an encouraging trend belying the notion that printed version of books will fade away in near future, according to research scholars, intellectuals and ...

PESHAWAR: Literati and critics gathered here on Sunday to launch Pashto translation of a prose book by Mirza Ghalib, originally written in Persian, and termed it a priceless addition to Pashto ...

Edward Zellem, a U.S. navy captain, has collected Afghan proverbs in Dari and Pashto languages, gathering them in books that have been published in some 70 countries. Zellem now invests the profits he ...

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First, a young man opened the meeting with a Quranic chant. Then the first author stepped up in front of his critics. Noor Gul Shafaq, 22, an Afghan radio journalist with lank, dark hair and wearing ...