BBC Pashto (Pashto: بي بي سي پښتو) is the Pashto-language station of the BBC World Service.[1][2] It was launched in August 1981, and reaches out to the over 50-60 million Pashto speakers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the Pashtun diaspora around the world.[3] Nabi Misdaq was its first editor.
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