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د کال 2008-09 رپورتاژونه
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د کابل، کندهار، جلال آباد، کوئټې، پېښور او کراچۍ د کتابونو په هر لوئی دوکان کښې موندلے کيږي ـ

خپروونکي:
• پېښور پښتو ادبي جرګه رجسټرډ، پېښور پاکستان
• پاک پښتو ادبي ټولنه قطر

By Sher Alam Shinwari


PESHAWAR: The Pashto cultural scene especially music and performing art has already become poorer during the past few years due to growing militancy as many artistes and singers have been forced to leave the business or subjected to migrate to other parts of the country or abroad from the Frontier. In such a turbulent and unfavourable times an amateur singer Fayaz Khan Kheshgi hailing from a politically influential aristocratic family in district Nowshehra ventured to plunge into the arena of Pashto music.

From a group of NWFP women

“Islam started as soon as we fled from Malakand. People outside Swat think we had Islam and Shariat. There is no Islam in Swat. The Taliban have finished it.’
-woman from Mingawera, Swat, in a Sawabai camp

Where does one begin to tell you what they have been saying. It is difficult to explain because it is difficult for some of us to believe, to understand and, at times, even to empathise with. Between their rage and their tears, between giving each other solace and laughing at lighter moments, they opened up to talk to us. They shall not be named but they shall be heard by all of us today.

We write here some of the stories told to us by the women of Swat. They come from Kabbal, Mingawera (Mingora), Qambar, Kanju and other parts of Swat. Some are from Buner and Maidan in Lower Dir. Their lives were affected in many more ways than the lives of their men. Although they belong to a conservative and retrogressive culture, which the Pukhtun male has always guarded very carefully, these women have lived through many months of a terror which has kept them even more house bound and has challenged every aspect of their Pukhtun way of life, in ways that they could not imagine. And yet their ignorance has played a big part in the tragedy of Swat. An ignorance and naivety which made many of them the captive audience of Fazlullah, or, as they call him, ‘Mullah Radio’.