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BBC Pashto ( Pashto: بي بي سي پښتو) is the Pashto -language station of the BBC World Service. [1] [2] It was launched in August 1981, and reaches out to the over 50-60 million Pashto speakers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the Pashtun diaspora around the world. [3] Nabi Misdaq was its first editor.
Sana Safi was born in Kabul and brought up in Kandahar, Helmand, in Nangarhar, and in other cities in Afghanistan. Safi left Afghanistan in 2007 and by 2014 was living in the United Kingdom. She is fluent in Pashto, Dari, and English. Career. Safi lives in London where she works for the BBC.
Broadcasting episodes in Dari and Pashto, the national languages of Afghanistan, the programme is aimed at children aged between 11 and 16, including girls whose secondary education has been stopped by the Taliban government. The weekly programme is broadcast on BBC News Afghanistan, as well as on social media streams of BBC News Pashto and BBC ...
May 2, 2024 at 10:46 AM. Shazia Haya used to travel around Afghanistan as a reporter [BBC] The number of BBC World Service journalists working in exile is estimated to have nearly doubled, to 310 ...
Bacha bāzī ( Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') [1] is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex. [2] [3] It is a custom in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by older men of ...
The mass media in Afghanistan is monitored by the Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC), and includes broadcasting, digital and printing. [1] It is mainly in Dari and Pashto, the official languages of the nation. It was reported in 2019 that Afghanistan had over 107 TV stations and 284 radio stations, including 100s of print media and over ...
The total number of Christians in Afghanistan is currently estimated to be between 15,000 and 20,000 according to International Christian Concern. Almost all Afghan Christians are converts from Islam. The Pew Research Center estimates that 40,000 Afghan Christians were living in Afghanistan in 2010. [1]
The Afghan Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د اسلامي امارت وسله وال ځواکونه, Dari: نیروهای مسلح امارت اسلامی افغانستان) also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces, is the military of Afghanistan, commanded by the Taliban government from 1997 to 2001 and since August 2021.