When future generations ask who silenced Pashtun music, the Taliban won’t get the blame – it will be piracy. The “pirates” are easily identifiable – they are the young men armed with laptops who can ...

Haniya Aslam was sitting in her family home in the turbulent, deeply conservative North-West Frontier province of Pakistan in October when a deafening blast shook the neighborhood, rattling doors and ...

AC Milan, one of the biggest football clubs in the world, has set the social media on fire after using a Pashto song in a ...

Is it a miniature piano? An amputee organ? A strapless accordion? Accustomed since childhood to the piano and recently enamored of the accordion, I am intrigued by the harmonium. Like many other ...

Since 2001, Taliban militants operating in the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have destroyed as many as 800 music shops, according ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

GARMSIR, Afghanistan: The DJs of Radio Garmsir in Afgha-nistan's lower Helmand River valley knew their station had touched a nerve when the letters started pouring in. First a few, then more, and ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In one of the more unexpected outcomes of Pakistan’s election last week, Leila the drag queen scored a big win. Leila, the stage name of a 30-year-old man named Adel, wasn’t ...