“Cheegha: The Call from Waziristan, the Last Outpost” (Reviewed by Angelina Merisi) Author: Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur L’Aleph: Sweden Wisehouse 2014 Foreword by: Prof. Akbar Ahmed Book Review: Ground realities, images and impressions of the lands and people of Waziristan can at best be merely conjured up in the imaginations of those keen to seek knowledge and truth concerning this ...

Book Review: India VS Pakistan: Why can’t we just be friends? Kashmir — Terrorism — N-Bomb Husain Haqqani is a well-known political philosopher, journalist, academic, and formerly Pakistan’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, then the United States. He has a comprehensive command of the affairs of South Asia. His books have been well received for their thoughtful analyses and his considered ...

Zarghuna Kargar “Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women in Afghanistan,” Naomi Goldsmith (ed.), London: Vintage Books, 2012. Contents: ‘My Story’ (Author), 12 individual life stories recounted by Afghan Women, Epilogue & Glossary. It is not often we are offered a glimpse into the private lives of Afghan women. The portrayal of Afghan women as vulnerable victims of cultural norms, traditions ...

The Pilgrim Of a Beauty: Selections from the poetry of Ghani Khan Please click on the PDF file below: The Pilgrim Of a Beauty   THE PASHTUN TIMES

Book Review: Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan frontier, by Aisha Ahmad & Roger Boase, London: Saqi Books, 2003, 368pp. Book contents include Preface, List of Plates, Folkloristic Analysis, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index of Tale Types & Folk Motifs.  Commentary by Angelina Merisi The long-standing indigenous tradition of storytelling, folktales, fables and verse narratives  has constituted a means of  didactic communication, underpinning ...

Suleman Layeq is the well-known an intelligent and creative Afghan poet. His poetic art has the full expression of the inner contradiction of the Afghan society. He is the most advanced conscious poet of this time because he was remained politically active with the side of that class which is still struggling and resisting the minority ruling class in different ...

Ghani Khan (1914-1996) was born in Hashtnagar (Charsadda), Pakhtunkhwa. Ghani was the eldest son of the great Pashtun political and spiritual leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (aka: Bacha Khan) (1890-1988), who dedicated his life for the freedom, education, empowerment and cause of Pashtun people. Renowned and revered for his peaceful campaign of social and political reform, Bacha Khan was nonetheless ...