Ashrafuddin Pirzada
PESHAWAR: On Thursday, fifty students of various backgrounds completed a two-month-long Pashtu language course held at Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar.
The certificate distribution ceremony was arranged in IMSciences on Thursday which was attended by Deputy Director IMSciences Peshawar, Waqar Ahmad, Coordinator ALEP Sikandar Tangi, Doctor Yar Muhammad Maghmoom, Doctor Zubair Hasrat, Doctor Said-Ul Amin Kheshgi.
The Culture, Literature, Arts and Development Organization (CLADO) offered the course in collaboration with Academic Linkages and Exchange Programs(ALEP), IMSciences.
The speakers said that Pashto as a language is on the decline. They said to revive and keep the language alive the Pashtu classes were organized in two modes.
Haris Shinwari said to facilitate Pashtu lovers online classes via Zoom were also arranged. He said in-person classes for students were continued for two months at IMSciences.
Haris Shinwari said Pashtu classes were a wonderful experience they learnt much more they were missing in their mother tong. He told students of young age also benefited from sessions arranged during the two-month classes.
He said more than 50 students graduated from the first batch. The course content ranged from basics of Pashto Language, Pashto Diction, Pashto Literature, Pashto Classic, Pashto Folklore, Pashtunwali and various other topics.
Abdur Rehman said Pashtu was their mother language and their moral obligation to preserve it.
He said the Pashtu language and Pashtu code were the need of the hour and everyone needed to practice it for initiating dialogue.
Doctor Yar Maghmoom shared anecdotes from his teaching journey and said that the enthusiasm and affection of students with the Pashtu language gave him hope for the revival of Mother Tong.
Khalida, a student, said that she had always been speaking Pashtu but never knew how to read and write and Pashtu language adhered to her identity and language.
Another participant, Hashir Taimoor said that he always wanted to read the great names of Pashtu.
