Pashto Literature: Past and Present,

The Recent Literary Deed of Dr. Abdullah Jan Abid

Abstract

Abdullah Jan Abid is one of the laborious and prominent Pashto researchers and critics, whose works
have come forward in the last two decades, though he is a Professor and head of the Department of Pakistan
languages, in Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, therefore he mostly writes on Pashto language and literature
in Urdu language. It not only facilitates Urdu readers, ambitious to acquaint with the structure and history of Pashto
language and literature, but it also helps the Pashto literature to become updated in accordance with the modern global
scenario. Uptil now, so many books on various subjects by Dr. Abid have been published and are available in market, in
which every book is having its own importance and gravity.