Music and Dances
Traditional Pashto music is mostly klasik ghazals, using rubab or sitar, tabla, portable harmonium, flute and several other musical instruments. Today's modern Pashto music is influenced by neighboring music such as Bollywood filmi as well as western or European.
Among the dozens of different folk dances known as Atanrh (Pashto: اتڼ; ALA-LC Romanization: Ataṇ), also referred to as Atan or Attan, are the following:
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