Sentence examples for Pashtu from inspiring English sources

Then the Americans moved him again - to a block where all the other prisoners spoke neither English nor Arabic, but only the Afghan lan guage Pashtu.

'But then I spoke to them in their own language Pashtu.

He could not speak Pashtu – or Arabic – but had left behind his pregnant wife Mayuda and their three-year old daughter in Gaziantep to travel to Damascus.

Pashto language, Pashto also spelled Pashtu, also called Pakhtu, member of the Iranian division of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages.

The Middle East Media Research Institute, or Memri, was founded in 1998 in Washington by Yigal Carmon, a former Israeli government adviser on counterterrorism, "to bridge the language gap between the Middle East and the West by monitoring, translating and studying Arab, Iranian, Urdu and Pashtu media, schoolbooks, and religious sermons".

We invited them on the base, and H.B. taught them the Pashtu alphabet on our dry-erase board.

The Taliban are mainly Pashtu-speakers from the country's south and east.

About three weeks ago, militants in Pakistan delivered a copy of a Pashtu-language jihadi magazine called Tora Bora to the Peshawar office of the Daily Times, a newspaper, headquartered in Lahore, that is run by two friends of mine, a husband and wife team, Najam Sethi and Jugnu Mohsin.

They are a distinguished religious family with a strong Pashtu-speaking following, but they are originally of Arab origin — "Sadat" being the preferred term to describe them.

Particularly in Pashtu-speaking areas in the south, swift (and often brutal) Taliban-administered "traditional" justice is sometimes deemed preferable to the sluggish and corrupt courts provided by the state.

COL Shahzada, a Pashtu-speaking brigade commander from Quetta was the next most senior officer.