Whois & Analysis for pajhwok.com

Pajhwok Afghan News is Afghanistan's largest independent news agency.

With headquarters in Kabul, eight regional bureaus and a nationwide network of reporters and correspondents, Pajhwok delivers an average daily output of three dozen stories in Pashto, Dari and English.

Pajhwok also provides photographs, video footage and audio clips to international wire agencies, televisions and radio stations.

Pashto (Pax̌tō), known in Persian literature as Afghānī and in Urdu and Hindi literature as Paṭhānī, is the South-Central Asian language of the Pashtuns.

Its speakers are called Pashtuns or Pukhtuns and sometimes Afghans or Pathans.

It is an Eastern Iranian language, belonging to the Indo-European family.

Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, and it is the second-largest regional language of Pakistan, mainly spoken in the west and northwest of the country.

Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are almost 100% Pashto-speaking, while it is the majority language of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern districts of Balochistan.

Pashto is the main language among the Pashtun diaspora around the world.

The total number of Pashto-speakers is estimated to be 45–60 million people worldwide.

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari, Afġānistān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

It has a population of approximately 32 million, making it the 42nd most populous country in the world.

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east; Iran in the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north; and China in the far northeast.

Its territory covers, making it the 41st largest country in the world.

Dari or Dari Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.

Dari is the term officially recognized and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language.

Hence, it is also known as Afghan Persian in many Western sources.

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the global lingua franca.

Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea.

It is most closely related to the Frisian languages, although its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages in the early medieval period, and later by Romance languages, particularly French.

English is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states.

It is the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, and is widely spoken in some areas of the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia.

It is the third most common native language in the world, after Mandarin and Spanish.

It is the most widely learned second language and an official language of the United Nations, of the European Union, and of many other world and regional international organisations.

It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch.