‘Pashto literature bears scars of ongoing war’

Earlier, a session on ‘SeventyFive Years of Pashto Language and Literature’ was also held at the Urdu Conference which was moderated by Khadim Hussain.

Talking on the occasion, he said that Pashto poetry also starts with mythology and folk. He added that Bacha Khan and Samad Khan’s magazine provided an opportunity for Pashtun women to write in the magazine, a living example of which is the poet Alif Jan Khattak. He urged the audience to read Naseer Ahmad Ahmadi’s novel ‘Baghdadi Pir’.

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 Speaking in the session, Sarwar Shimal said that the war that has been going on for 40 years in the Pakhtun region and has also affected our poetry and prose.

“Other poems speak of love and affection. In our poetry, poets have made war and strife the subject of their poetry,” he said.