Pashto Times

My Khyber Marriage (Experiences of a Scotswoman as the Wife of a Pathan Chieftain’s Son) By: Murag Murray Abdullah Note: I found this book last week in the library. Read a few pages and a review and perceived the following lines which I am going to share with you. If some one has already read this book may share a brief summary. (Muhammad Ali Dinakhel: 12th July 2022, Berlin) Saira Jamil Elizabeth Luiza Shah was  was a Scottish writer. She has written with her pen name Morag Murray Abdullah. She married to the son of a Pashtun Malak. It is her story when she met the Syed Abdullah (fiction name of Iqbal Ali Shah). She has written the story of her marriage to the son of a Malak (tribal chief). She met Abdullah, a handsome student attending the university in Scotland.  She has also narrated her travels story to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the then North-West Frontier Province of India as well as the mountains of Afghanistan. For the first time this book published in 1934. The second edition p

KISHWAR SULTAN: Legendary Pashtun Singer From Peshawar. Kishwar Sultan was born in Peshawar in 1936. She died in 2002. She was the only child of Chaudry Roshan Khan (father) and Bakht Nissa (mother). She did not have brothers and sisters of her own but had 4 step brothers (named Nadir, AbdulRehman, Meer Ahmed, and Mumtaz). She got her basic education from her husband Mr. Tariq Mahmood, enabling her to read and write Pashto and Urdu. She grew up in Peshawar and was a typical house wife who took care of her kids. She was introduced to Radio station Peshawar in the early 1950s. Her first song (written by poet Gulistan) was: Ya Illahi rawalay yao zal guli khandan Her last song recorded in 1991 (essentially a remix of her own old song) was: Zar sham maida maida maida maida, qurban sham warray, warra warra raza. Her favorite female singer was Gulnar Begam; whereas her favorite male singers were Khayal Mohammad and Hedayatullah. Of her own songs, she liked the following song (written by Ustaz

 Za Pa Nisab Ki. Pukhto Nazam By Adnan Khyali 25 December 2022 زۀ په نصاب کښې ...! د "بابائے قوم" خلاف نۀ یمه...  "شاعر مشرق" را باندې وپېژنه... دغه "دو قومي نظریه" به وایم... عرب به لولم مسلمان هم یم.. خو المیه  ترمنځه دا ده صېبه... زما بچے چې دا ټول ووائي بیا "بن قاسم"، "ټېپو سلطان" یادوي  د "ترنګزو بابا جي" نۀ پېژني په "لیاقت" او "جناح" سر ورکوي د "باچاخان بابا" غندنه کوي "بابر"، "اکبر"، "اورنګزېب" ټول پېژني... خو لۀ "شیرشاه"، "احمد شاه" نۀ وي خبر "اقبال"، "غالب" او داسې نور را سپړي.. "خوشحال"، "رحمان" په دوړو پټ پاتې کړي د "سر سید" څوک سیاله نۀ ګڼي خو د خپل "مخفي بابا" نه نۀ وي خبر د "رنجیت سنګهـ" مجسمه زغمي او د "عجب خان" یادګار له سر نړوي لړۍ اوږده ده،لنډه دا چې زما بچو ته دغه هم وښایه خو خپل تاریخ ترې نه هم مۀ تروړه چې سبا د خپلو خلقو سپکه نۀ کړي یا خپل خواخوږے،