Afghanistan has two nationally recognized official languages: Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language. Pashto is ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

Among the struggles involved in re-establishing life in a new country, some Afghan parents fear their children will lose the cultural and historical connections that come with speaking Dari. Qayoom ...

Many Kabulis, like 17-year-old Akhmad, are fluent in both languages. But the Taliban's insistence on Pashto, he says, left the language with a tarnished reputation: "I know Pashto very well -- not ...