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Pashto Academy
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<h2 id="activities">Activities</h2> <p>Since its inception, the Pashto Academy has produced over 500 publications in Pashto, which include classical texts, modern literature, critical literature, scientific works, translations, Pashto lexicon, research publications, booklets, and journals. The academy maintains a library which is host to a large collection of printed Pashto books, rare texts and manuscripts, media, tapes, and photographs of prominent scholars and poets.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> The academy also maintains a museum and art gallery, inaugurated in 2009, depicting Pashtun cultural heritage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> A research cell has been set up at the academy which conducts studies on the life and works of <a href="/facts/Khushal_Khan_Khattak/j6HQsrxY">Khushal Khan Khattak</a>, regarded as one of the most notable classical Pashtun poets.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="directors">Directors</h2> <p>Past and present directors of the Pashto Academy:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Abdul_Qadir_(academician)/lFbJTpul">Maulana Abdul Qadir</a></li> <li>Mian Syed Rasool Rasa</li> <li>Syed Azeem Shah Khyal Bokhari</li> <li>Mohammad Nawaz Tahir</li> <li>Raj Wali Shah Khattak</li> <li><a href="/facts/Salma_Shaheen/LfIEGlmR">Salma Shaheen</a></li> <li>Dr. Nasrullah Jan Wazir (Current Director)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Languages portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Academy_of_Sciences_of_Afghanistan/PJ11MwJB">Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan</a> – Pashto language regulation board in Afghanistan</li> <li><a href="/facts/National_Language_Authority/p7P5odqk">National Language Authority</a> (Urdu) – National regulation board for Urdu</li> <li><a href="/facts/Sindhi_Language_Authority/DavshRWQ">Sindhi Language Authority</a> – Sindhi language regulation authority</li> <li><a href="/facts/Balochi_Academy/l2EYPHtV">Balochi Academy</a> – Balochi language regulation academy</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.uop.edu.pk/departments/?q=Pashto-Academy">University of Peshawar Departmental Site for Pashto Academy</a></li> <li><a href="http://pashtoacademy.uop.edu.pk">Pashto Academy official website</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/pashtoacademy">Pashto Academy's channel</a> on <a href="/facts/YouTube_user_(identifier)/db276jst">YouTube</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Centre of Pashto Language and Literature". University of Peshawar. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Pollock, Sheldon Ivan (2003). Literary Culture in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. University of California Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0520228214. <a href="978-0520228214" target="_blank">978-0520228214</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Sebeok, Thomas Albert (1976). Current Trends in Linguistics: Index. Walter de Gruyter. p. 705. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Centre of Pashto Language and Literature". University of Peshawar. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Brown, Michael Edward; Ganguly, Sumit (2003). Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia. MIT Press. pp. 71. ISBN 978-0262523332. <a href="978-0262523332" target="_blank">978-0262523332</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Green, Nile; Arbabzadah, Nushin (2013). Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation. Hurst. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-84904-204-8. <a href="978-1-84904-204-8" target="_blank">978-1-84904-204-8</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Centre of Pashto Language and Literature". University of Peshawar. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Centre of Pashto Language and Literature". University of Peshawar. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Pashtoon Heritage Museum - Pashto Academy". Pashto Academy. Archived from the original on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121115021408/http://pashtoacademy.edu.pk/heritage-museum.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121115021408/http://pashtoacademy.edu.pk/heritage-museum.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"Centre of Pashto Language and Literature". University of Peshawar. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Centre of Pashto Language and Literature". University of Peshawar. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121111212606/http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/researchcenter/pashtoacademy/pashtoacademy.html</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Director". Pashto Academy. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121114223307/http://pashto.upesh.edu.pk/director.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121114223307/http://pashto.upesh.edu.pk/director.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>