Ashraf Ghani's Bodyguard Assassinated

[Mr Happy]

The thing is that the oldest record of written Pashto language go back only about 5 hundred years. We can't say with certainty how old Pashto language is as there are no clear historical records.
However what we can say with certainty is that Pashto language is older than it's written records suggest.

Some aspects of Pashto are old and some are not. There were languages before Pashto. The first languages of Pakhtuns is not Pashto or Pakhto. I have evidence for that. However, it is older than it's written record. We can find out how old each element of Pashto is by deriving the etymology of Pashto.

For example: shaista or khaista in Pashto meaning beautiful. This has been taken from Persian. Khaista has developed from shaista. So, it is more recent than shaista.

https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/raverty_query.py?page=672

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/steingass_query.py?page=728

We can check all of Pashto and any other language, insha Allah.