HOUSTON, May 3, 2011 — Poets Fahmida Riaz and Hasina Gul, joined by poet-translator Waqas Khwaja, introduced a major new anthology of contemporary Pakistani poetry at a reading hosted by Asia Society ...

Afghan Pashto poets gather as they read their poems at a cultural organization in Jalalabad. Jalalabad is regarded as the heartland of Afghan poetry in a region better known for its warriors than its ...

Since their rise in the late 1990s, the Taliban and likeminded groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region have launched an aggressive campaign against liberal ways of life, bombing music shops, ...

KHYBER: Speakers at a literary session held in Bara on Sunday paid rich tribute to the late Pashto poet and writer Qandahar Afridi for his enlightening contributions to the Pashto literature and ...