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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim +1 more
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Phonological Reduction in Pashto [PDF]
Global Language Review, 2020 The study is concerned with the phonological reduction in Pashto. The study particularly focuses on the reduction in the structure of complex predicates, verbal clitics and postpositional phrases in Pashto. The study finds out that the phonological reduction has syntactic/semantic or phonological factors allowing or constraining it.
Arshad Ali Khan +2 more
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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The Effectiveness of Using Translation as a Learning Strategy in the Afghan EFL Context
Journal of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThe usefulness of translation as a learning strategy in the EFL context remains a subject of ongoing academic debate, particularly in relation to meaningful learning and language proficiency.
Atiqullah Mashal +2 more
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A Robust Approach for Speaker Identification Using Dialect Information
Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2022 The present research is an effort to enhance the performance of voice processing systems, in our case the speaker identification system (SIS) by addressing the variability caused by the dialectical variations of a language.
Shahid Munir Shah +2 more
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Turkish/Mongolian Lexical Borrowings in South Asian Languages
Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Language, 2021 Turks and the Turkish language have been in mutual relations with different languages in wide world geography throughout history. There have been approximately 2500 years of mutual linguistic interaction between Turkish and South Asian, especially ...
Doğan Yücel
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Afghan Refugees in Buffalo [PDF]
, 2015 Afghanistan is a diverse country with many different ethnicities, often differentiated by language or religious beliefs. Many of the groups can also be found in the nations that border Afghanistan: Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan ...
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Do Women Make Better Borrowers and Loan Officers? Evidence From Afghanistan
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how gender is associated with microfinance loan performance in Afghanistan, a conservative and conflict‐affected society. We use data from over 9500 borrowers across Taliban‐ and government‐controlled areas for the period from January 2017 to February 2020, before the 2021 Taliban takeover.
Mustafa Disli +2 more
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Jokes are not Innocent: Representation of Punjabis in Pashto Jokes
University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2018 In this paper, the researcher analysed racist or ethnic jokes as a genre of discourse to investigate the issue of representation of Punjabis in Pashto jokes.
Muhammad Waqar Ali
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Proposal for characters for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski [PDF]
, 2006 This is a proposal to add characters in the Arabic script to the international character encoding standard Unicode needed to represent the Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski languages.
Anderson, Deborah +2 more
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