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 ...

PESHAWAR: Young Pashto singer Hashmat Sahar after gaining fame in Pashto has started recoding ghazals of popular poets including Ahmad Faraz and Parveen Shakir to win over hearts of his fans. Hailing ...

“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 ...