PESHAWAR: Pashto singer from Swat Nazia Iqbal will launch her new music album which unlike the ones released in the past has Urdu songs. Shooting videos for her new album on an ornate stage in a hall ...

PESHAWAR: Literati and research scholars gathered here on Friday to express their views about a new Pashto title ‘Da Swat Pakhto Adab auo Saqafat’ (Pashto literature and culture of Swat), authored by ...

MINGORA Film shows and other forms of entertainment returned to Swat district on Monday, after about three years. On the first day of Eid a new Pashto film was released in two cinema halls which ran ...

A group from a town in Pakistan’s Swat valley shoots for the Pashto version of ‘Dirilis: Ertugrul’ | Courtesy Dawn A Pashto version of the first season of the popular Turkish historical series Dirilis ...

Musical and cultural activities in the Swat Valley are reviving gradually as an increasing number of young artists are emerging in the field of dance and music. Two year back, when the valley was ...

SWAT: Pashto Language experts and linguists said on Thursday that several issues erupted in written scriptures of Pashto due to diversity in its dialects. They made the revelation at a seminar on the ...

Before the arrival of the Taliban, the north-western Pakistani valley of Swat was a centre of Pashtun music and culture. But under the militants a ban was imposed on all forms of artistic expression.

The ex-husband of Pashto singer and anti-Taliban activist Ghazala Javed has been sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district, for murdering the singer and her father in 2012 ...

In the modern era education has become an essential necessity for people to live prosperous lives and nations to progress. Without an educated population nations not only lag behind in the spheres of ...

This is what the Pashto folk song Karan Khan is humming roughly translates to. Khan says the city has lost its splendour because of environmental degradation. “This Peshawar bears little resemblance ...

A popular Pashto singer Ghazala Javed was shot dead along with her father outside a beauty salon in Peshawar on Monday night just as she was heading out for a performance. Though Ghazala had to flee ...

The military operation against Taliban militants continues in Pakistan's north-western district of Swat. It is hard to get news from the war zone, other than the official version. The communications ...