BBC Pashto

BBC Pashto
TypeRadio network and website
Country
AvailabilityInternational
EndowmentForeign and Commonwealth Office, UK
OwnerBBC
Launch date
1981
Webcastwww.bbc.com/pashto/bbc_pashto_radio/liveradio
Official website
BBC Pashto
LanguagePashto

BBC Pashto (Pashto: بي بي سي پښتو) is the Pashto-language station of the BBC World Service. It was launched in August 1981, and reaches out to the over 50-60 million Pashto speakers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the Pashtun diaspora around the world. Nabi Misdaq was its first editor.