Pashto (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan.

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	Indian Music - Pashtu Tal (Pashtoo) (589 words) The desire to unify theses disparate regional and communal cultures of India were reflected in the desire to codify the disparate interpretations of rags and tals into a single cohesive whole. It is not clear why pashtu failed to be amalgamated under the heading of rupak tal. Perhaps it was because the usage of pashtu was geographically too far from the present boundaries of India; the name "pashtu" implies the area on the Pakistan / Afghanistan border. Development of the Pashtu Language (718 words) >> Pashtu is spoken primarily in Afghanistan and in the NWFP Province of >> Pakistan. Added to this difficulty is that Pashtu speakers feel that there is a religious requirement that they use an Arabic based alphabet. Since there are several sounds in Pashtu which do not exist Arabic, they have have had to invent some new letters to accommodate this.
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