AMIR Hamza Khan Shinwari, or Hamza Baba as he is known, started writing poetry in Urdu when he was only in grade five. But his spiritual guide, Syed Abdul Sattar Shah Baacha, asked him to switch to ...

“What tyrant has attacked my mountains this year/ When I go to shovel the snow, I pick up only blood.” This verse from a recent Pashto poem written by Mukhtar Orakzai, translated into English, best ...

More Pashtuns live in Karachi than any other city in the world and they are concerned about their heritage It was the afternoon of September 24. A group of people -- both young and old -- gathered at ...

PESHAWAR: Pashto poetry is popularly known as relating to either love or war. Modern scholars, however, are starting to dig deeper to the ‘scientific core’ of Pukhtun verses. “This region’s classical ...

PESHAWAR: Noted Pashto and Urdu poet, research scholar and literary critic Riaz Tasneem died in a Karachi hospital on Monday morning after battling for life for more than a month. He left behind a son ...

Prominent poets and notable literary figures from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa attended the 25th death anniversary of renowned Pashto poet Amir Hamza Khan here in Landi Kotal, on Sunday. Khyber Pashto Adabi ...

Since their rise in the late 1990s, the Taliban and likeminded groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region have launched an aggressive campaign against liberal ways of life, bombing music shops, ...