"PashApp" A User Friendly Pashto Text Editor

Pashto is the language of Pashtuns. They are, historically, inhabited mainly in Afghanistan, Pakistan's Khyber PakhtunKhwa (KPK), Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Baluchistan and Iran. There are approximately 50-60 million Pashto speakers around the world. Pashto is a member of the Indo-European language family. Pashto is also a member of the southeastern Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian languages. There are three main varieties of Pashto: Northern Pashto and Central Pashto, spoken mainly in Pakistan; Southern Pashto, spoken mainly in Afghanistan. The Pashto language is prevailing rapidly because of its rich literature. The first written records of Pashto are believed to date from the sixteenth century and consist of an account of Shekh Mali's conquest of Swat. Pashto has an extensive written tradition. There are a number of classic Pashtun poets, most notably Khushal Khan Khattak, considered as national poet of Afghanistan, was wrote in Pashto. In this century, there has been a rapid expansion of writing in Pashto such as in journalism and other modern artistic work (genres). Pashto writings and writers play vital role in this regard.