“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 ...

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 ...

During the 17th and early 18th century, three very prominent Pashto poets honoured what today is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. They were, in chronological order, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba ...

Landi Kotal, Pakistan, Feb 19 : Noted Pashto poet and writer Murad Shinwari died of multiple medical problems in his home in Khyber Agency on Saturday. He was 85, reports Dawn. He was laid to rest in ...

PESHAWAR: Pashto poet Aitbaar Gul, who was shot dead in Islamabad, was laid to rest in his village in Shah Dhand on Wednesday. He was 45. It is difficult to map out Gul’s literary journey without ...

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love. "Like a ...