Some of them instructed us in chaste Pashto to turn off the lights and stay inside.
Two versions of the pamphlets were distributed in Afghanistan, written in the Pashto language.
As the only Pashto speaker on his team, he organized the Afghan soldiers around him.
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This theme of violence is playing out in other genres in Pashto, such as short stories.
Rolando, who'd taught himself Pashto using an MP3 player, chatted amiably with the local men he encountered.
"Now I know the meaning of life, how to live, " she says in Pashto, which Jamila translates.
Part of the LEAP programme, it features police-related issues in the national languages of Dari and Pashto.
Then there is Zarlasht Hafeez, a female Pashto poet who has published a collection called "Waiting for Peace".
A. in technical engineering, he is fluent in the Afghan languages Dari and Pashto, as well as in Russian.
Detainees are offered classes in literacy (Arabic and Pashto), English instruction, art, and "life skills" such as resume writing.
Jan's school teaches math, science, religion and three languages: English, Farsi and Pashto.
One resident of Musa Qala, Haji Sarfaraz, told the BBC's Pashto Service that life was now returning to normal there.
"The operation went well, now she is ok and the swelling is down, " her father, Ziaudin Yousafzai, told BBC Pashto.
The military uses computer games for everything from teaching squad tactics and treating PTSD to speaking conversational Pashto and how to conduct a counterinsurgency campaign.
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Books are available in English, Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, Russian, and French.
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She mutters something in Pashto, and the couple translate for me.
Hicks barely interacted with them except to hand them bottles of water and occasionally order them, in Pashto, to shut up when they whispered to each other.
To help neo-literate police officers test their reading ability with informative and relevant material, UNESCO publishes a monthly newspaper, Khedmat (which means "service" in the Pashto and Dari languages).
His group said such phones violate Islamic teachings and tribal customs as Indian and Pashto songs were often stored on such phones and that the cameras may encourage the violation of purdah, as women could be photographed.
"Since the three of us come from three different parts of Afghanistan and speak in three different languages - Pashto, Dari and Uzbek - we thought it would be a good idea to sing in English, " says Ahmad.
More than half of the graduate students who study less-commonly taught languages (such as Hindi, Indonesian and Farsi) and 78% of those who study the least-common languages such as Pashto and Urdu do so at Title VI-funded National Resource Centers.
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