Pashto in a sentence

It is the native tongue of the Tajiks, Hazaras, Aimaks, and Kizilbash. citation Pashto is the native tongue of the Pashtuns, although many Pashtuns often use Dari and some non-Pashtuns are fluent in Pashto.

Media and arts further Pashto media has expanded in the last decade, with a number of Pashto TV channels becoming available.

Gul Faraz, right, and Rizwan Ullah, survivors of cable car incident, talk to members of media, near the incident site, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

He conversed with his Afghan bodyguards in Pashto.

Prime Minister Muhammad Hashim declared Pashto as the only language of state in 1937.

Youngsters, left, who were trapped in a broken cable car, receive first aid following their rescue, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, late Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023.

Hakim is fluent in Persian, Dari, Hindi, Urdu and Pashto, and knew the region better than many of the senior staffers.

Sitting shoulder to shoulder, muttering curses in Farsi and Pashto, our engineers had each drunk six cups of tea in less than ten minutes, hoarding an entire thermos for themselves.

The subversive, anti-authoritarian mindset is instilled into her by her father, a humanities professor who encourages her to learn Farsi, Dari, and Pashto languages in the aftermath of 9/11.

The languages are English, Punjabi, Farsi, Pashto, and Bengali.

Titled “Shine Your Light: Song by Refugees”, the track has been mentored and composed by Kej, and performed in four different languages — English, Dari, Farsi, and Pashto — by 24 young refugee musicians in India.

I joined him more than once in Pashto language debates on the situation in Swat, where he used to openly challenge the Taliban logic of banning girls’ education.

We have characters speaking Tamil, Marathi, Kashmiri and Pashto.

Realizing that “The Envoy,” the 2016 memoir by Mr. Khalilzad, the Afghan-American who was the United States ambassador to both Afghanistan and Iraq, would be a big seller here, Mr. Aazem rushed to acquire the Dari and Pashto rights.

A folk etymology offered is that the word "kand" or "qand" in Persian and Pashto (the local languages) means " candy ".

Early written records of Pashto began to appear around the 16th century.

Fluency in Pashto is often the main determinant of group acceptance as to who is considered a Pashtun.

For example, many leaders of non-Pashtun ethnic groups in Afghanistan practice Pashtunwali to some degree and are fluent in Pashto language.

Many of the non-Pashtun groups in Afghanistan have adopted the Pashtun culture and use Pashto as a second language.

My brother looked at them and said, this time in Pashto, 'There are still many sun- worshippers in this country.