Pashto
Pashto is a national language of
Afghanistan spoken by over half (8,000,000) the people, including the Taliban.
Pashto is also the native language of the inhabitants of the Northwest Frontier
Province of Pakistan, and is spoken by groups in Karachi and Beluchistan.
It is an Indo-European language and one of the two official languages used in
schools.
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