* Pashto music

Ubaidullah Jan Kandaharai is regarded as the king of Pashto music in the southern Afghanistan region.

Other famous folk singers include Sain Zahoor and Alam Lohar from Punjab and Allan Fakir and Mai Bhaghi from Sindh, Akhtar Chanal Zahri from Baluchistan and Zarsanga from North-West Frontier Province who is considered the queen of Pashto folk music.

The music of Balochistan province is very rich and full of varieties due to the many different types of languages which are spoken in the province, including Balochi, Pashto, Brahui, Persian and Saraiki.

Although Badala is a type of Pashto folk music, it is normally sung by professional musicians.

In recent years, the Pashto music industry has been given official patronage through television and increased support by Pakistani listeners who have begun to appreciate classic and traditional Pashto poetry.

Farhad ' Darya ' Nasher ( Pashto: فرهاد دریا b. September 22, 1962, from Kunduz, Afghanistan ) is an Afghan singer and composer, as well as a highly acclaimed music producer, and Good Will and Peace Ambassador for Afghanistan to the United Nations.

Afghanistan ( Persian / Pashto:, Afġānistān ), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and to some extent Western Asia.

Ahmad Shah Durrani ( c. 1722 – 1773 ) ( Pashto /), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī ( Pashto / Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي ) and born as Ahmad < u > Kh </ u > ān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire ( Afghan Empire ) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan .</ poem >

Afghan ( Pashto / Persian: افغان ; see etymology ) is used to indicate a citizen of Afghanistan.

Nowadays, " Afghan " is usually not used as an ethnic term, but as a national demonym for all citizens of Afghanistan, while " Pashtun "-the native ethnonym of this people-is largely used in a linguistic sense to refer to native speakers of Pashto.

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

Jalalabad ( Pashto / Persian: جلال آباد ), formerly called Adina Pour () as documented by the 7th century Hsüan-tsang, is a city in eastern Afghanistan.

Pashto is the main language of the city and is also used throughout the province.

A loya jirga () is a type of jirga regarded as " grand assembly ," a phrase in the Pashto language meaning " grand council.

The phrase loya jirga is Pashto and means " grand council ".

The military of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان پوځ, Dari: ارتش افغانستان ) is composed of the Afghan National Army and the Afghan Air Force.

Mazār-i-Sharīf or Mazār-e Sharīf ( Persian / Pashto: مزار ِ شریف, ) is the fourth-largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of about 375, 000 as of 2006.

The dominant language in Mazari Sharif is Dari ( Persian ) followed by Pashto, both of which are the official languages of Afghanistan.

A common name for males in Afghanistan is " Redey ," which in Pashto means " poppy.

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan ( RAWA ) ( Persian: جمعیت انقلابی زنان افغانستان, Jamiyat-e Enqelābi-ye Zanān-e Afghānestān, Pashto: د افغانستان د ښڅو انقلابی جمعیت ) is a women's organization based in Quetta, Pakistan, that promotes women's rights and secular democracy.

The Taliban (), alternative spelling Taleban, (, meaning " students " in Pashto ) is an Islamic fundamentalist militant movement of Pashtun tribesmen.

The word Taliban is Pashto,, meaning " students ", the plural of ṭālib.

As defined in the Constitution of Afghanistan, it is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan ; the other is Pashto.

Dari, which is also simply called Farsi ( Persian ) by its native-speakers, is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan ( the other being Pashto ).

Bactria ( from, the Hellenized version of Old Persian Bāxtriš ; Elamite ba-ak-ši-iš, Persian and Pashto as باختر Bākhtar or Pākhtar ; ; Chinese ) is the ancient name of a historical region located south of the Amu Darya and west of Gandhara.

The main language spoken in the delineated Pashtunistan region is Pashto, followed by others such as Balochi, Hindko, and Urdu.

Pashto and Dari ( Persian ) are both the official languages of the country, although Persian is spoken by about half of the population and serves as a lingua franca for the majority.

Jezail musketThe jezail ( Sometimes Jezzail from the Pashto language ) was a simple, cost-efficient and often handmade muzzle-loading long arm commonly used in British India, Central Asia and parts of the Middle East in the past.

With small modifications, it is the style most commonly used for printing Arabic, Persian, Pashto, et al.

Endoclitics are also found in Pashto and are reported to exist in Degema.

Nominative cases are found in Slovak, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Georgian, German, Latin, Greek, Icelandic, Old English, Old French, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Russian, and Pashto, among other languages.

The talwar ( Urdu, Pashto: تلوار, Bengali: তল ো য ়া র, Hindi: तलव ा र, Panjabi: ਤਲਵ ਾ ਰ ) is a type of curved sword or sabre from the Indian sub-continent, and is found in the modern countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

In addition to Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Arabic, and the Persian dialect Dari, it is also found in Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Panjabi, Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Azeri, Maltese, Hungarian, Polish, German, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Greek, Romanian, French, Italian and Dutch.

The Rohilla ( Pashto روهیله ) are a community of Urdu-speaking Pashtun Afghans also known as Pathan, historically found in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in North India.

Broken plurals can also be found in languages that have borrowed many words from Arabic, for instance Persian, Pashto, Turkish, Kurdish, Azerbaijani and Urdu, and sometimes exist in both a broken plural Arabic form and a local, adapted plural, e. g. in Pashto where the word for purpose ( مطلب ) can be pluralised in either its Arabic form مطالب for more formal, High Pashto, or the according to Pashto rules of plural as مطلبونه in everyday speech.

Muhammadzai () ( meaning son of Muhammad in Pashto language ) is the name of several Pashtun tribes found in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.

The elites of this tribe usually speak the northern Pashto dialect found in Nangarhar province, however there are many Mohammadzai's who speak Dari Persian as a first ( or second language ), especially those whom live around Persian speaking non-Pashtun Afghans.

There are numerous Pashto speakers Pakhtuns from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province who joined their families who were already in Karachi from early 20th century along with Saraikis, Kashmiri, Hinko, Baloch and Punjabi peoples.

In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, Pashto speakers constitute above 73 percent of the population as of 1998.

Nowshera ( Pashto: نوشار / نوشہرہ ) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan-the principal city is Nowshera.

Karak ( Pashto: کرك, ) is a district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

The Jadoon ( Hindko / Pashto /), also called Gadoons (), is a Pashtun Afghan tribe in Pakistan, partly in Gadoon in Swabi, and partly in Abbottabad and Haripur districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Swat (, Pashto: سوات ) is a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.

Swabi ( Pashto: صوابی ) is the capital of Swabi District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

* Junaid Javed, Pashto musical band originating from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan

Nowshera ( Pashto: نوښار ) ()-known locally as Nowkhaar is the chief city of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.