Toramana Jan - There's something about "modern" commercial media that doesn't favour classical culture - you know what I mean? Even if, for example, you subscribe to 10 Indian TV channels, what you get is either soaps or modern Bollywood songs that are 100 million miles away from their classical ghazals, bajans, instrumentals.

The article, which you say was translated from the Pashto, made similar observations of contemporary Pashto media/music.

You know one thing that I can't believe, living here in the UAE? We have Malayalam radio stations, English, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi etc. Not one Pashto and ALL the drivers are Pashtoon. Technically we have the third biggest Pashtoon population (albeit guest workers) outside the Pashtoon belt. Such massive media oversights have their way of bothering me sometimes.