Word: pashto
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...busy thoroughfare in Peshawar, a few musicians sitting on faded red carpets take up instruments while they await customers. On the walls are photos of the band's performances. Zar Wali smiles broadly as he begins to play the harmonium. "My beloved country," he sings in his native Pashto, "this Afghanistan, is very dear to me." The anthem is sweet--sweet enough to make him briefly forget that he is in Pakistan...
...team. They shoved the slight, bearded, Pakistani-born Kansi, 33, to the floor, cuffed his hands behind his back and identified themselves as FBI agents. "Who are you?" one of them demanded. "F___ you," Kansi snapped in his lightly accented English, and began screaming for help in his native Pashto language. Garrett knelt beside Kansi and took a thumbprint. A Midwesterner with a Ph.D. in criminology and a powerful memory, Garrett recognized the ridges and whorls. "We got him," he said. The G-men hustled their captive out of the hotel and into a waiting four-wheel-drive vehicle...
...Khan Professor of Iranian History, Richard N. Frye has studied and taught courses on subjects from Zoroasterianism to the study of languages like Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, Kurdish and Pashto. A member of the Near Eastern Studies Center, the Linguistics Department and the History Department, not to mention the chairman of the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Affairs and a former editor of an archeological journal, Frye is involved in as many academic concerns as the numbers of languages he speaks...
...Over the years I've taught Hebrew, Arabic, early, middle and late Persian, Turkish and Pashto," Frye says. "And that's actually pretty difficult. One of the things people don't realize is that all those languages are very different. It would be like having one professor of romance languages...
...name the U.S. and Soviet Union co-guarantors, and stipulate a Soviet withdrawal within nine months. In a separate memorandum, the United Nations will agree to monitor compliance. At week's end translators were busy turning out copies of the 40-page document in Urdu for the Pakistanis and Pashto for the Afghans, as well as Russian and English...