# Pashto Translation Services

> Pashto translation services for documents from Afghanistan and Pakistan, such as the tazkira, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS.

https://roxotranslations.com/pashto-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Pashto translation services for documents from Afghanistan and Pakistan and from the Afghan communities of the United States, Canada and Europe, to and from English and other languages. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Pashto from Afghanistan and Pakistan, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Pashto is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Pashto, also written Pakhto or Pushto, is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, alongside Dari, and in Pakistan it is the main language of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and of the north of Balochistan. It has more than 40 million speakers, most of them in these two countries, and large communities in the Gulf, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the United States. Since 2021, tens of thousands of Afghan families have resettled in the United States, and most Pashto documents we receive are needed there. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Pashto, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Consulates, embassies and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Pashto language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Pashto that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Pashto to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [Pashto to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Pashto to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Pashto to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Pashto](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to Pashto](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to Pashto](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Russian to Pashto](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Pashto translation services for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Pashto is one language, but the Pashto of Kandahar and the Pashto of Peshawar differ in sounds and in everyday words, and Afghan and Pakistani documents follow different models. A good translation reads every letter of the original and keeps every detail of the record.

- Alphabet: Pashto is written from right to left in an alphabet based on Arabic script, with more than 40 letters, including letters that Arabic and Persian do not have, such as ټ, ډ, ړ, ښ and څ. The translation reads each one correctly, also in handwritten records.
- South and North: the Pashto of the South, around Kandahar, and of the North, around Peshawar, differ in some sounds. The letter ښ sounds like sh in Kandahar and like kh in Peshawar, which is why the same language is called Pashto in one region and Pakhto in the other.
- Names: many Afghans have no family surname, and the tazkira identifies the person by the given name, the father’s name and the grandfather’s name. The same name can be spelled Mohammad, Muhammad or Mohammed in English, so the translation follows the spelling in the passport when there is one; tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Dates and numbers: Afghan documents carry dates in the Hijri calendars used in Afghanistan, the solar one (hijri shamsi), in which the year 1405 began in March 2026, or the lunar one, and they often write the Eastern Arabic numerals in their Persian form (۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹). The translation reproduces each date exactly as it is in the original.
- Documents: the national ID card (tazkira, تذکره) and its electronic version (e-tazkira), the birth certificate, the marriage certificate and school records follow Afghan national models, and many are printed in Dari and Pashto on the same page. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Pashto language

Pashto belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family, the same branch as Persian and Kurdish, and has been spoken for centuries in the mountains and valleys between the Hindu Kush and the Indus River. Over time it took in words from Persian, Arabic and the languages of India, and it came to be written in an adapted Arabic alphabet, with new letters for its own sounds.

In the 17th century, Khushal Khan Khattak, a tribal chief and poet, wrote hundreds of poems in Pashto, and Rahman Baba, a Sufi poet from the region of Peshawar, wrote verses that are still recited today. In 1747, Ahmad Shah Durrani founded the state that became modern Afghanistan, and he also wrote poetry in Pashto.

In the 20th century, Pashto became a language of the Afghan state, and the 1964 constitution named Pashto and Dari the official languages of Afghanistan. Today Pashto has more than 40 million speakers, and the communities that formed in the Gulf, in Europe and in North America still need their documents translated for immigration, study and work.

## We also translate other languages

- [Urdu translation](https://roxotranslations.com/urdu-translation/)
- [Amharic translation](https://roxotranslations.com/amharic-translation/)
- [Croatian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/croatian-translation/)
- [Thai translation](https://roxotranslations.com/thai-translation/)
- [Tagalog translation](https://roxotranslations.com/tagalog-translation/)