PESHAWAR: Literati and scholars at an event here on Sunday praised progressive Pashto poet Hameedur Rahman Nadaan as a true voice of community as he versified socio-economic plights of people around ...

PESHAWAR: Poets and writers gathered here on Sunday to pay glowing tributes to popular Sufi poet Raman Baba on his 365th death anniversary. The three-day Urs of Rahman Baba was started on Friday and ...

A 20th-century poetic genius wrote about his people's struggles with modernity, ignorance, freedom and discrimination. Some of his popular poems were turned into songs and introduced generations of ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a unique province of Pakistan having a vibrant cultural history and its literary tradition is deeply rooted in the expressions of its native poets. Preservation and promoting ...

HOUSTON, May 3, 2011 — Poets Fahmida Riaz and Hasina Gul, joined by poet-translator Waqas Khwaja, introduced a major new anthology of contemporary Pakistani poetry at a reading hosted by Asia Society ...

PESHAWAR: Afghanistan's tumultuous history of the last three decades is behind the incredible popularity of poetry in Pashto, the language of the majority Pakhtoons in Pakistan's North West Frontier ...

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This famous adage aptly frames the spirit of Warrior Poet: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Khushal Khan Khattak. History may not produce identical ...

Since their rise in the late 1990s, the Taliban and likeminded groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region have launched an aggressive campaign against liberal ways of life, bombing music shops, ...

Pashto Poet A poet with a lantern Not many people know about Sharif Khan Ustad, a Pashto poet from North Waziristan, who died recently and how he used to carry a lantern in daytime ...

Tribal security guards have foiled a bomb attack on the shrine of a Sufi poet in Pakistan's Khyber tribal area, RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports. On July 22, Several attackers tried to plant bombs at ...