The Afghan Minister for Culture and Youth Syed Makhdoom Rahim said that work on publishing the Holy Quran with a translation in Pushto has been started in the country. He said that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, the Holy Quran has been translated into Pushto and would be published soon. The Holy Quran has been translated by a council of experts and is expected to consist of 1,230 pages, Radio Tehran reported.| It was when the Bible was translated from Latin into the vernacular that Protestantism really got under way, so I'd consider this a good sign. I'm not sure how many Pashtuns are actually literate, but I'm expecting a considerable amount of turban scratching as they read their holy book in their own language and discover that it makes no more sense in Pashto than it does in Arabic, and maybe less. |