Pushtu

Among the rank-and-file are speakers of Arabic, Dari, Urdu and Pushtu.

Seven members of the Pakistani Taliban, speaking with the local Pushtu accent and dressed in the uniforms of the local paramilitary force, came from a graveyard and over the wall of a large, army-run school.

Celebrating the prisoner swap next to Mr Obama in the White House garden, Mr Bergdahl used a Koranic invocation and some Pushtu phrases, saying his son’s English was rusty.

Among its officers are speakers of Arabic, Urdu and Pushtu, and experts in military intelligence and foreign affairs.

He told it graphically and well, speaking in the Pushtu with, as had happened throughout all the dialogue, an odd word here and there of a coined language peculiar to the Brotherhood, thrown in.