1. Marines experienced in these tasks and native Kandahari-dialect Pashto speakers acted out the scenarios without a script.

2. Currently, the focus is on Pashto, a native Afghani tongue, but NIST has also assessed machine translation systems for Dari—also spoken in Afghanistan—and Iraqi Arabic.

3. Pashto is the language spoken by the Pashtuns, a member of the southeastern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages spoken in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.

4. Only 7, 700 Pashto speakers live in the US, according to the 2000 census.

5. He is a Pashto and former mujahideen commander who has his finger on the pulse of the military situation and the security industry.

6. The ODA's only Pashto speaker, Staff Sgt. Miller took charge of the dismounted element and assembled partnered ANA forces to ensure they could move under cover.

7. A local journalist based in Lashkar Gah also told BBC Pashto that Taliban fighters remained in many residential areas of Marjah and were defending their positions with heavy weapons.

8. His global view also calls for expanding foreign language training in civilian and military schools in critical languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Farsi and Pashto.

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9. Most of the tweets on the account, which was created on December 19, are written in Pashto, the native language in parts of Afghanistan.

10. Last month Mr Mohseni launched a satellite news channel broadcasting round the clock in Dari and Pashto. He hopes to distribute it on terrestrial television soon.

11. The health ministry has adapted WHO family planning guidelines to the Afghan situation, with the support of WHO, and translated them into national languages, Dari and Pashto.

12. Much of the training is aimed at building the confidence of the troops, some of whom have relatives in the Taliban, and who speak the same language, Pashto, as the militants.

13. The game has more than 50 actors, delivering thousands of lines of dialogue, with foreign dialogue recorded in Pashto, Gulf Arabic and Chechen.

14. "When we were doing entertainment programming, the people called us singers [which is derogatory in Pashto], " says Nazir.

15. Each of these short papers is available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Dari, French, Korean, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish versions.

16. The seven remaining poppy - growing provinces are all in the Pashto - speaking south, where the Taliban's writ runs.

17. But most folks who read "Three Cups of Tea" are not interested in living in northwestern Pakistan and learning how to speak Pashto.

18. Last month Mr Mohseni launched a satellite news channel broadcasting round the clock in Dari and Pashto.

19. TheAfghans spoke no English, the Americans spoke no Dari or Pashto, and there wereonly two translators, neither of them fully fluent in English.