Tarzi, Siraj-ul-Akhbar and Persian Language in Afghanistan

The present article aims at answering to this question that why the domain of linguistic conflicts in Afghanistan has widened so much and has continued till the present time. The author focuses on Mahmud Tarzi's role in this regard, who is an Afghan writer, politician, intellectual and journalist. Soleimani considers the publication of Siraj-ul-akhbar as an effort to pave the way for the substitution of Pashto with Persian language. By mentioning various examples of this linguistic policy, the author introduces Tarzi as the theorist of language change and strict policies on Persian language. He shows that Tarzi uses forging terms and changing the truth to implement those policies. By doing so, Tarzi creates concepts which help the Pashtuns to create a bottleneck for Persian language.