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Sep 22, 2026
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It is April 2017 in northwest Pakistan.
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A journalism student named Mashal Khan has appeared on a Pashto television channel to criticize his university.
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He is 23.
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The institution he attends is Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan.
TedHOST
Moved to Sacramento.
TedHOST
Pashto.
TedHOST
One of his earlier books was called 99 Nights in Logar, which is an imaginative play on Islamic texts, as I understand it.
TedHOST
So, I mean, you know, I think Sacramento, yeah, Sacramento plays a role in the fiction story.
Sean FewsterHOST
when prosecutor michael fundus announced that it was like someone had dropped a very large stone in the The reaction of the Zai family in the dock was incredibly animated.
Sean FewsterHOST
They started talking to one another in their native Pashto tongue.
Sean FewsterHOST
Their interpreters were struggling to keep up, wondering whether they even should be interpreting this into English, whether this was something the court needed to hear.
Sean FewsterHOST
Walida, the mother, was yelling, my baby, my baby.
Sean FewsterHOST
Sure.
Sean FewsterHOST
We've heard what they had to say.
Sean FewsterHOST
Now, I think they're probably worried, and this is my supposition, I don't speak Pashto, worried about how they came across.
Sean FewsterHOST
And this is their last chance to sort of impress upon Law how
Theresa RoosendaalGUEST
So that's kind of the big picture, but the other piece of it is that Selfishly, I wanted to have those relationships, right? How can I care and be in a close relationship with this person or develop a friendship with this person if I...
Theresa RoosendaalGUEST
Well, I can learn their language, but then as we started serving more and more people from all kinds of languages, it's easier if I teach them my language, right? And I can't learn Arabic and Swahili and Pashto and all these languages.
Theresa RoosendaalGUEST
That's a little overwhelming.
Theresa RoosendaalGUEST
I can barely learn Spanish, so.
Joshua DevereuxGUEST
Maybe Karabag.
Joshua DevereuxGUEST
I don't know how to pronounce it in Pashto.
Joshua DevereuxGUEST
I believe it was Karabag is how you pronounce it.
Joshua DevereuxGUEST
It's been a while.
Luke LamannaHOST
During these patrols, we'd often end up in the Korengal Valley and the surrounding hills.
Luke LamannaHOST
These areas felt like they were lost to time, like the people there would speak dialects of Pashto that even our interpreters didn't understand.
Luke LamannaHOST
We would ask people in one village about the folks in another village just on the other side of the ridge, and they would have absolutely no clue about them.
Luke LamannaHOST
That's how secluded some of these people were.
Tom BrownGUEST
And then by this time, the United States government's in Afghanistan and funding all sorts of agricultural projects.
Tom BrownGUEST
I could speak enough Pashto and Persian and Urdu that I could.
Tom BrownGUEST
And then I knew, how does agriculture work? Who buys seed? Where does it come from? Where does the fertilizer come from? Who uses it? How much do they use? Who are the people that buy inputs? And where do they get their financing? And who makes the decisions about these things? So I knew all that.
Tom BrownGUEST
And so people called me who were donor funded and say, hey, can you help us? We want to set up a program to make alternative crops for opium growers, for example, or just raise rural income.
Rebecca MitchellHOST
There are several major branches and they followed very different historical paths.
Rebecca MitchellHOST
On the one hand, we have Indo-Iranian, which contains hundreds of languages, including Hindi, Bengali and Marathi on the Indo-Aryan side, and Persian, Kurdish and Pashto among the Iranian languages.
Rebecca MitchellHOST
On the other hand, we've got branches represented today by essentially a single language.
Rebecca MitchellHOST
such as Greek, Armenian and Albanian, which each form their own independent branch of the family.
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Rebecca MitchellHOST
And so there's no single feature that makes an Indo-European language instantly recognisable.
Rebecca MitchellHOST
I mean, Macedonian doesn't look like Marathi.
Rebecca MitchellHOST
Pashto doesn't look like Polish.
Rebecca MitchellHOST
and Nepali certainly doesn't look like Norwegian.
Mustafa MustaanGUEST
First of all, their ambassador, Iranian ambassador, comes on TV and thanks the Afghan people in
Adnan KhanHOST
Pashto.
Mustafa MustaanGUEST
For a Farsi-speaking Iranian ambassador speaking in Pashto, it's like speaking in Hebrew for them.
Mustafa MustaanGUEST
So it's that part.
Mustafa MustaanGUEST
Because there's a lot of historical stuff and the only people who went up to Asfahan, it was the Afghanis who went there.
Mustafa MustaanGUEST
So that's one
Adnan KhanHOST
thing.
Adnan KhanHOST
He came on TV and he thanked the Afghan people in Pashto.
MattHOST
Like, this is amazing.
MattHOST
And he just said, oh, yeah, I listen to this thing called Pashto Radio.
MattHOST
And it's really good.
MattHOST
And it tells stories from the Gospels and so on.
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HannahGUEST
And I just found that so inspiring and hard hitting because, but in a good way, because I think we're about the same age.
HannahGUEST
And I just felt that we'd had similar triggers.
HannahGUEST
We both sat there age sort of 14, watching things that were happening in the world at that time, really sad things about, ISIS and yeah things that happened in Egypt at that time between ISIS and the Egyptian government and the churches there in particular in the Coptic community and yeah we both spoke about that story and how that sort of was the beginning of God leading us to look into the Muslim world more and connect with Muslims like just on a very kind of starter level and then for her to then say that she studied a master's and then continued that master's a bit in Pakistan and then started learning Pashto and then ended up Yeah, being a worker out there with this family and joining their team and how that sort of stepping stone process with the Lord happened for her, I found so encouraging for myself because I feel like I'm very much on a kind of a stepping stone process with God right now.
HannahGUEST
I can see the next stepping stone, but then I can't see the stones after that.
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