After the incident of 9/11 a wave of insurgency has significantly affected Pashto language by making vital changes in the colloquial and written way of expression. Pashtun were targeted in this conflict which geographically took place in Pashtun inhabited areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Violence has enveloped all kinds of expressions of Pashto language. One can easily find the shift in these expressions, where new and aggressive terms replaced the ‘soft-accommodative-tolerant’ Pashto language words. As mentioned earlier, the strategic location of Pashtun is the main reasons due to which the violent conflict has been implicated on the nation and its way of life.
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