Driven by the war in Afghanistan, instructors at four colleges are scrambling to offer traditional and distance-education courses in Pashto, a language virtually untaught in the United States but ...

In a further sign that the U.S. military wants to forget that the Afghanistan War ever happened, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California will cease teaching ...

Afghanistan faces one of the world’s lowest youth and adult literacy rates – a consequence of four decades of conflict, natural disasters and poverty that has profoundly impacted the country’s ...

RECENTLY, Pakhtun grammarians, language experts and writers from universities in Peshawar and Kabul came together in a two-day seminar called ‘Asanah Pashto’ in Kabul to develop easy or functional ...