Pushto literature

found: Afghanistan cultural profile, via WWW, July 27, 2005:Literature (Afghan literature, whether in Dari, Pashtu, Uzbek or Tajik; during the early medieval period literature was written in Dari and Pashtu, Turkic and Arabic; seventeenth-century Afghan warrior-poet Khushal Khan Khatak (1613-1694) wrote in Pashtu. Regarded today as the national poet of modern Afghanistan, he wrote a large body of verse during a time of civil strife; Mahmud Tarzi (1865-1933) began promoting Pashtu as a national language in his newspaper Seraj ul-Akhbar (1911-1918). It was it was under his influence that Pashtu prose began to develop in Afghanistan along Middle Eastern rather than Indian lines)

found: Afghanistan's Web site, July 27, 2005:Literature (Literature in both the Dari and Pashto languages originated in the early Muslim centuries, when Arabic was also used)