LEARN PASHTO IN SEVEN TWEETS
Pashto has 44 alphabets, taken from Arabic, and some are invented by Pir Rokhan.
ا ب پ ت ټ ث ج چ ح خ څ ځ د ډ ذ ړ ر ز ژ ږ س ش ښ ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک ګ ل م ن ڼ و ه ي ې ئ ۍ ے
Today female students protested against teachers harassment at the very famous Islamia College,
#Peshawar
.
I consider this a new paradigm in Pashtun society, because this is the very first time that female stood for own-self in education institutions.
پچھلے 20 برس میں آٹھ آرمی چیف ہونے چاہئیں تھے، صرف 4 آئے۔ اس دوران صرف 4 وزیراعظم آنے چاہیئے تھے لیکن آٹھ آئے۔ پاکستان کا نہ صرف حساب کمزور ہے جمہوریت بھی! عزت تو ویسے ہی نہیں ہے!
Sania Saeed has wear Swabi's traditional shawl "Chail" in
#Sangemah
,
History of Chail: Yousafzais fought a battle against the Sikhs during 1800s, women rushed & covered bodies of martyrs with white dopatts which stained them with red dots thus commemorating the historic victory.
A kaka is selling Lotus roots. (Barsandy)
Lotus flower is a symbol of enlightenment & rebirth in Gandharan civilization, and Charsadda was once 'Pushkulavati' which means City of Lotus.💮
📍 Chowk Yadgar,
#Peshawar
.
I will be teaching a subject to student of Master Public Administration as Visiting Lecturer at University of
#Peshawar
this spring.
It's an honour for me to teach at my own alma-mater.
Pashto Calendar is derived from Vikrami calender, & still in use in the agriculture system
MONTHS:
بېساک
Apr—May🍒
جېټ
May—Jun🌾
هاړ
Jul—Jul 🌴
پشکال
Jul—Aug☀️
بادرو
Aug—Sep😓
اسو
Sep—Oct🔆
کتک
Oct—Nov🍁
مګن
Nov—Dec🌤️
پوه
Dec—Jan🤧
ما
Jan—Feb❄️
پکڼ
Feb—Mar🌸
چېتر
Mar—Apr🍏
#OnThisDay
in 1689 the Great Pashtun warrior poet
#KhushalKhattak
died.
He preached the union of all Pashtuns, and encouraged revolt against the Mughal Empire, promoted Pashtun nationalism.
He is considered the 'Father of Pashto Literature'.
The newly discovered stucco sculptures by Archaeology & Museum Department under the leadership of Dr.
@samadarab
at Baho Dheri
#Swabi
are amazing pieces of art.
It's true that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a place where every stone has a story.
Pashto has approx 88 dialects which are divided into 2 main dialects.
Soft Dialect & Hard Dialect.
Soft dialect means the sound which spoke on the tip of the tongue like in Qandahar, Quetta Waziristan
While hard dialects are spoken from the throat like in Kabul, Peshawar, Mardan
Did you know these yellow lines at ZU stations
#Peshawar
are called "Tactile paving" this is a system of textured ground surface indicators to assist pedestrians who are vision impaired.
#OnThisDay
in 2010 Dr. Farooq Khan, A Pashtun Psychiatrist, Islamic scholar & Ex-VC University of Swat assassinated.
He described suicide attacks as un-Islamic & oppose radicalization.
We protested against this brutal act at Peshawar Press Club on that day.
This wasn't just our residential place in our student life, But also this place taught us Politics, Negotiation, Tolerance, friendship & much more.
[On
#ZUPeshawar
's bicycle at Khushal Khan Khattak aka Hostel 1 of University of Peshawar]
Peshawar & surroundings were full of Alochy (Plum) orchards but now you can see very few of them.
In our childhood the most adventurous crime was to stole
#Alochy
from da alocho bagh. :)
#Peshawar
should be awarded "Hilal-i-istaqlal" for showing severe resistance to the militancy in the war on teror.
This would recognise by the State that this city has suffered alot.
So far this award has been given to Lahore, Sargodha & Sialkot.
I am excited to be appointed as member of advisory committee of "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Reading Policy" under the supervision of honourable minister
@kamrankbangash
.
The committee will formulate & execute a policy to inculcate reading habits in young people through out the province.
Visited 'Shangla Girls School', which provides quality education for girls on scholarship.
Beautiful location & infrastructure, having state of the art classrooms & playgrounds by pine hills.
Happy to know that Pashto is part of the curriculum.
The school is funded by
@Malala
.
𝐃𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐛𝐲 𝐊𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐤
Dastarnama is a prose book of Khushal Khattak written in 1665 when he was in prison at Ranthambore Fort by Mughul.
In this book he explained '20 skills' & '20 characteristics' that a
#leader
should have.
#OnThisDay
in 1947 Pashtuns demanded for an independent state of Pashtunistan, But British refused.
#BannuDeclaration
Original script of the declaration:
So these dialects make conflicts in sounds to resolve the conflict within dialects, these 4 alphabets are invented.
ځ څ ږ ښ
څ = ث/چ (Tse)
ځ = ز/ج (dze)
ږ = گ/ژ (zhy)
ښ = ش/خ (kshin)
#Thread
:
I will tweet all those book covers, posters, songs, painting & other stuff in which Pashtuns are shown with guns or in which there is glorifying the wars.
One week ago I made a video in pashto that got more than 50k views.
I think there is a huge room of content production in local languages.
What do you say?
My first experience with
#ZUBicycle
was amazing, I took bicycle from Hayatabad dock & rode to University campus.
It took 23 minutes, my smart watch detected the cycling activity & showd that 315 calories has brunt.
Inshort Deera maza ye okwa! 🚴
📷
@ImadK122
Group photo after a in-depth discussion on "The New Silk Roads" by
@PeterFrankopan
at today's book circle organized by
#PeshawarCircle
.
📍 Peshawar Public Library.
#OnThisDay
Abdur Rehman Peshawari died!
He was Peshawar born freedom fighter who joined the ottoman army after a difficult journey by selling his books and jacket when the balkan army broke out.
In 1925, he was assassinated and buried in Istanbul.🇹🇷
was watching this song "De Barra k", the irony is that the song is picturized in somewhere in Murree or Galiyat, because the beautiful Barra and the wounderful Terah is no go area.
Militancy has ruined each and every thing in this part of the world.
The person accompanying Asad Qaiser is Zahirullah aka Babu Jee, the pioneer of dubbing culture in Pashto.
His famous characters were Khrash-Prash, Khanzeer Mama, Nana, and several more.
One of his famous dubbing album was Dar-e-Wrro, the name adopted by a courier company later.
I have created a Pashtun Calendar, In which important days of our history are mentioned.
Read it here:
If you remember any other dates, Please tell me, so I can add.
In a discussion at a twitter space🟣: We Pashtuns should name our children in Pashto instead of other languages,
Sharing some of Pashto names
For Boys:
اټک ، اختر ، اجمل ، اوښتون ، اتل، انگار، اميل خان، ايمل ، انځور ، اباسين ، ازمون ، ارمان ، اند، اڅک، انځرگل، اوڅار ، ببری
.....