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- 15:19, 27 November 2024 Module:RandomPage (hist | edit) [191 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "local p = {} -- Function to fetch a random page function p.randomPage() -- Get a random page from the site local randomPage = mw.site:randomPage() return randomPage end return p")
- 10:58, 27 November 2024 Abdul Rahman Pazhwak (hist | edit) [3,309 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Abdul Rahman Pazhwak (born March 7, 1919 – June 8, 1995) was a diplomat, poet and writer in Pashto and Dari. Born in 1919 in Ghazni and educated Nangarhar and at Habibia High School in Kabul, he started a career as journalist, but eventually joined the foreign ministry. He was editor of Islah (q.v., 1939), director general of the Pashto Academy in 1941. in 1946, he was named Cultural and Press Attaché of the Royal Afghan Embassy in London. The fo...")
- 18:06, 26 November 2024 Indo-Iranian (hist | edit) [938 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Together Indo-Aryan and Iranian constitute Indo-Iranian, a major branch of the Indo-European family. Within Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan is now clearly the weightier partner, both demographically and in terms of number of languages, despite the great territorial extension of Iranian. It also possesses records which are not only older in time but for the most part more archaic linguistically. (Even if the new arguments for an early date for portions of the original Avest...")
- 18:01, 26 November 2024 Abdul Hai Habibi (hist | edit) [7,676 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:All_Pages Educator, historian and representative of Kandahar in parliament. Self educated, he started as a teacher and became editor of Pashto daily Tulu-yi Afghan (Afghan Surise) in 1931. He was a Pashtun Nationalist and a member of Weekh Zalmian (Awakened Youth). In 1940, he was appointed the president of Pashto Academy and in 1941 dean of faculty of literature of Kabul University. He was forced to live in exile because of his opposition to the...")
- 17:59, 26 November 2024 Amir Mohammad Suri (hist | edit) [8,135 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:All_Pages Amir Mohammad Suri was the sultan of Ferozkoh of Ghor. Yaqub Lais Safari (254-265 H./867-878 A.D.) took the slopes of the Ghor mountains from Zamindawar, Zawalistan, Rukhaj and Tagin Abad (c. 252 H./866 A,D.) but the Suris and the people of Ghor took refuge in the heights of the Ghor mountains. and stayed in safety.[1] When Amir Subuktagin bin Jawq (qara bijkum-black yak) ascended to the throne of sultanate on 27 Shaban, 366 H./976 A.D. in Ghaz...")
- 21:42, 23 November 2024 Wakhan (hist | edit) [1,396 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:All_Pages The district of Wakhan lies in the northeastern part of Badakhshan Province and extends from Ishkashim in the west to the borders of China in the east, separating Tajikistan from the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. The district had been awarded to Afghanistan by the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission (1895–1896) in order to create a buffer between the two empires. At first, Amir Abdur Rahman was reluctant to accept this award of territory beca...")
- 21:35, 23 November 2024 Wakhi Language (hist | edit) [3,195 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:All_Pages Wakhi language is derived from the dialect of the very earliest wave of Iranian settlers in these regions, and that it has developed in relative isolation for a considerable period. <ref>Morgenstierne (1938:435)</ref> Wakhi is mostly spoken in the Wakhan district of Badakhshan province of Afghanistan and in Chitral of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. There are no reports of the earliest movement of the Wakhi into Chitral. Ho...")
- 20:25, 23 November 2024 Amir Polad (hist | edit) [1,949 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:All_Pages After Malik Shinasp till the rise of Abu Muslim Khurasani ( 130 H./ 747 A.D.) we lose track of the Suri rulers for one whole century until Minhaj Siraj again speaks of an indirect descendant of Malik Shinasp, Amir Polad, who should, at least, be a great grandson of Malik Shinasp and who, in the words of this author was in possession of the surroundings of the Ghor mountains and revived the name of his forefathers. When Ibn Muslim Mervzi rose and ex...")
- 19:48, 23 November 2024 Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan (hist | edit) [1,185 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:All_Pages Mohammad Akbar Khan, an Afghan hero, was victorious against the British. The ferocity was such that the 16,500 British garrison with 12,000 support staff and dependents were wiped out. Only one survived, of mixed British-Indian garrison, reaches the fort in Jalalabad, on a stumbling pony. Mohammad Akbar Khan was a major player in the defeat of the British army in the first Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842). He outsmarted and killed William MacNaught...")
- 16:27, 23 November 2024 Academy of Sciences (hist | edit) [5,890 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:All_Pages Afghanistan's principal governmental research organization, the Academy of Sciences, has its roots in the Association for the Advancement of the Pashto Language (De Pashto Adbi Anjuman), set up in Kandahar in 1932 by soldier, politician, poet and writer Mohammad Gul Khan Momand (1885-1964, known to Afghans as 'Pashtun Baba'). The initial aim of the Association was to conduct linguistic and literary research and publish scholarly works in Pash...")
- 15:36, 23 November 2024 Adam Khan and Durkhanai (hist | edit) [24,354 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " == Introduction == This classic romance has been called the Pashto Romeo and Juliet (Darrnesteter 1888-1890:17); it has both a written and an oral tradition. A seventeenth-century composition in couplets has survived in nineteenth-century manuscripts and was published in 1960 by the Pashto Academy with extensive annotation; other nineteenth-century compositions exist in both prose and verse (Blumhardt and MacKenzie 1965: 100, 126-7). Ghazanvi (1978: 51) has sugg...")
- 18:24, 22 November 2024 Mohammad Azam Azam (hist | edit) [5,597 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Categories:All_Pages Soft-spoken Prof Dr Mohammad Azam Azam, the author of no less than 11 books, is a man with an unassuming personality. He has been rendering meritorious services to Pashto language and literature for the last 45 years. Dr Azam is a distinguished writer known for his individual and unique style, and for having introduced and contributed to modern literary trends both in substance and style in Pashto prose as well as poetry. He enjoys mass popularit...")
- 18:17, 22 November 2024 Mirwais Khan Hotak (hist | edit) [23,711 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "All_Pages A picture of life in the old city of Kandahar under the Timurids, the Safavids and the Moghuls has begun to emerge since the British Institute began its excavations in 1974. Bronze ewers, imported glazed ceramics and ornate glass from Persia and imported porcelains from China speak of widespread trade. Locally made glazed wares in the Persian style speak of a cultural orientation toward the west. On the whole the indigenous Pashtun tri...")
- 18:12, 22 November 2024 Nazo Tokhi (hist | edit) [1,253 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Nazo Tokhi is the mother of Mirwais Khan. She was a prominent learned poet and courteous person. Her father, Sultan Malakhai Tokhi, was also a prominent head of his tribe. In this way, Mirwais Khan inherited wisdom and political strength from both sides of his family. His father, Salim Khan, as head of his tribe was a rich businessman too. He sent caravans in route to Delhi, India and Isfahan in Persia. Nazo Anaa's father paid close attention to her education-and-upb...")
- 18:10, 22 November 2024 Weekh Zalmian (hist | edit) [3,000 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The third major policy focus of the immediate postwar period in Afghanistan was the experiment in political liberalization implemented by Shah Mahmud Khan. Encouraged by young, Western-educated members of the political elite, the prime minister allowed national assembly elections that were distinctly less controlled than ever before, resulting in the “liberal parliament” of 1949. He also relaxed strict press censorship and allowed opposition political groups to c...")
- 17:24, 18 November 2024 Jirga (hist | edit) [5,621 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "According to the Pashto Descriptive Dictionary (1978: 1272) jirga is an original Pashto word,which in its common usage refers to the gathering of a few, or a large number of people; it also means consultation according to this source. The word jirga is also used in Persian/Dari. According to Ghyathul-Lughat (1871:119) it is derived from jirg, which means a 'wrestling ring',or 'circle', but is commonly used to refer to the gathering of people. Other scholars believe that...")
- 10:33, 12 November 2024 Ahmad Shah Abdali (hist | edit) [22,829 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ahmad Shah Abdali's role in the history of the region is never well evaluated. None of the many historians ever bothered to place him within his proper historical and sociopolitical perspective. The reason why Ahmad Shahs merit was never recognized was his rise at a time when the Indian and Persian empires were disintegrating and the alien invaders from the West were scrambling into fill the vacuum. Whatever Ahmad Shah accomplished benefited the alien invaders and his ac...")
- 09:45, 12 November 2024 Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani (hist | edit) [56,543 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Al-Afghani is often described as one of the most prominent Islamic political leaders and philosophers of the nineteenth century. He was concerned with the subjection of the Muslim world by Western colonial powers, and he made the liberation, independence and unity of the Islamic world one of the major aims of his life. He provided a theoretical explanation for the relative decline of the Islamic world, and a philosophical theory of history which sought to establish a for...")
- 09:05, 11 November 2024 Amir Kror (hist | edit) [12,985 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Amir Kror Jahan Pahlawan: We do not know the name of Amir Polad's father, the long time ruler of the capital of Ghor mountains, Mandesh. But from his own name composed of both Pashto and Dari components we can understand that he was born in an environment made up of the common culture of this land. It could be said almost with certainty that the lofty peak of Koh-i-Baba (Baba Mountain), Shah Poladi and a region of the eastern Ghor, Dai Poladi are named after this Iron A...")
- 21:03, 10 November 2024 Abdul Shakoor Rashad (hist | edit) [20,436 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Poets Category:Philosophers Category:Painters Category:Writers","utf-8" "465","#redirect Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan","utf-8" "466","#redirect Ahmad Shah Baba","utf-8" "467","#redirect Ahmad Shah Durrani","utf-8" "468","#redirect Khan Abdul Ghani Khan","utf-8" "469","Academician Professor Abdul Shakoor Rishad was born in an esteemed family on November 14th, 1921; right two years after his country got its independence from the Great Br...")
- 20:58, 10 November 2024 Afghan National Army Ranks Titles Divisions (hist | edit) [7,938 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Afghan National Army ranks, titles and divisions in Pashto == <table width=""100%"" border=""1"" cellspacing=""1"" cellpadding=""0""> <tr> <td valign=""top"" width=""37""><strong>Ranks</strong></td> <td valign=""top"" width=""160""><strong>English</strong></td> <td valign=""top"" width=""230""><strong>Transliteration</strong></td> <td valign=""top"" width=""299""><strong>Pashto</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=""top"" width=""37""> 1</td> <td valign=""top"" width=...")
- 20:54, 10 November 2024 Pashto Language (hist | edit) [1,943 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Pashto language is spoken in Afghanistan and north western parts of modern Pakistan. It is written in Arabic script that is written from right to left, along with Arabic, Persian/Dari, Urdu, Balochi, Kurdish, Kashmiri, Lahnda, Sindhi, Uyghur, Berber languages, Moplah (Dialect of Malayalam), Malagasy and Sulu<ref>[http://www.basistech.com/knowledge-center/arabic/arabic-script-languages.pdf A Profile of Arabic Languages by Basis Technology]</ref>. Like Arabic and Persian...")
- 20:50, 10 November 2024 Pashto Alphabet (hist | edit) [8,001 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There are 42 alphabets in Pashto language and the following table shows all of the 42 alphabets. <font size=""5""> {| class=""wikitable"" |- | ش || س || ږ || ژ || ز || ړ || ر || ذ || د || خ || ح || څ || چ || ځ || ج || ث || ټ || ت || پ || ب || ا |- | ۍ || ﺉ || ې || ي || ی || ه || و || ڼ || ن || م || ل || ګ || ک || ق || ف || ع || ظ || ط || ض || ص || ښ |} </font> == Pashto Alphabets & Unicode == The following table...")
- 20:47, 10 November 2024 Pashto Numerals (hist | edit) [1,673 bytes] Wikiadmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Pashto uses a variant of Eastern Arabic numeral system. The difference between The Eastern Arabic numeral system or generally called Arabic numeral in Middle East and the Afghan or Pashto numeral is in the numbers 4, 5 & 6. The first table contains all the numbers from 0-9 (and 10) with their names in Pashto language and the second table is for the comparison of Arabic and Pashto numberals. <big> {| class=""wikitable"" |- ! Western Arabic !! Pashto !! Pashto Name !!<fon...")