Window I
The counter
Languages: Pashto · Dari · English
Check: 04 Letters ټ ډ ړ ږ ښ ګ ڼ ې ۍ
Business cards, menus, storefront signs, food labels, packaging, wedding and engagement invitations, Eid cards and calendars, written and typeset in Pashto, Dari and English by native linguists, checked letter by letter, and produced to commercial print standards for Afghan-owned businesses and Afghan families in all 50 states, Canada, Europe and Australia.
The service, in Pashto and Dari
The print room
Scroll, and the pieces come to you: the way they will look and feel when they arrive.
English on the front, Pashto and Dari on the back. Letterpress, foil or painted edges.
For businesses
Tri-fold brochures that open to your services in Pashto, Dari and English.
For businesses
Pashto and Dari cards in one suite, with envelopes addressed from your guest list.
For families
Afghan dish names spelled the way your guests say them, beside the English.
For businesses
Boxes and labels with the required statements set in each language they carry.
For businesses
Wall calendars for 1406 with Afghan month names in Pashto and Dari.
For businesses and families
In brief
Printing services for Afghan businesses and families cover what an Afghan-owned business or an Afghan family prints: business cards, menus, signs, food labels, packaging, wedding and engagement invitations, Eid cards and calendars, in Pashto, Dari, English and other languages. Ariana Nexus writes, typesets and proofs each piece in-house and manages production through delivery, so the Pashto and Dari print correctly and every required statement is checked.
For families
From the engagement to the wedding, from Eid to a memorial gathering: invitations and cards written in the words your family uses, in Pashto, Dari and English.
Pashtoوادهwada
Dariعروسیarosi
Invitations and envelopes, RSVP cards, programs, menus, seating charts, welcome signs, favor tags and thank-you cards
Pashtoکوژدهkozhda
Dariنامزدیnamzadi
Engagement invitations, shirini box sleeves and tags, and welcome signs
Pashtoنکريزېnakrizay
Dariشب خینهshab-e khina
Invitations, henna favor tags and table cards
Pashtoنکاحnikah
Dariنکاحnikah
Nikah invitations, programs and keepsake folders
Pashtoعقیقهaqiqa
Dariعقیقهaqiqa
Aqiqa invitations, sweet-box tags and thank-you cards
Pashtoکلیزه · فراغتkalizah · faraghat
Dariسالگره · فراغتsalgira · faraghat
Invitations, banners, place cards and thank-you cards
Pashtoکوچنی اختر · لوی اختر · نوروزKuchnai Akhtar · Loy Akhtar · Nawroz
Dariعید رمضان · عید قربان · نوروزEid-e Ramazan · Eid-e Qurban · Nowruz
Greeting cards, gift tags, haft mewa boxes and Solar Hijri calendars
Pashtoد قرآن ختمda Quran khatm
Dariختم قرآنkhatm-e Quran
Invitations and programs
Pashtoفاتحهfatiha
Dariفاتحهfatiha
Memorial notices, condolence cards and programs, handled quietly and with priority
The wedding suite
Languages: Pashto · Dari · English
Check: 06 Dates and digits · 08 Cultural review

For businesses
Six illustrative pieces, each shown with the languages it carries and the rule or check it passes.
Window I
Languages: Pashto · Dari · English
Check: 04 Letters ټ ډ ړ ږ ښ ګ ڼ ې ۍ
Window II
Languages: Pashto · Dari · English
Check: 05 Variety · Afghan Dari, never Iranian Persian or a machine guess
Window III
Languages: Pashto · Dari · English
Rules: 21 CFR 101.15(c)(2) · 19 CFR Part 134, “Product of Afghanistan”
Window IV
Languages: Pashto · Dari · English
Check: 03 Direction · right-to-left lines, with English placed correctly
Window V
Languages: Pashto · Dari · English
Rule: 49 CFR 390.21T · carrier name and USDOT number on both sides, legible from 50 feet
Window VI
Languages: Pashto · Dari · English
Check: 06 Dates and digits · order calendars in January or early February
The card counter
Standard, square and folded
Flat, folded, pocket-fold and boxed
Flat cards and box sleeves
Postcard or envelope reply
Flat or folded
Folded greeting cards and gift tags
Tented, flat and long menu cards
Die-cut tags and stickers
Wallet size
Flat or folded
Where it goes wrong
Pashto and Dari break easily in print. When the text passes through software or a team that cannot read it, letters disconnect or reverse, Pashto letters drop out, and Iranian Persian or machine translation takes the place of Afghan Dari. On a sign, a menu or a wedding invitation, every customer and guest sees it, and a food label without its required statements is out of compliance.
Broken
پ ښ ت وLetters print disconnected or backwards
Correct
پښتوJoined, right to left, every letter present
Vocabulary
| Meaning | Afghan Dari | Iranian Persian |
|---|---|---|
| Car | موتر | ماشین |
| Hospital | شفاخانه | بیمارستان |
| School | مکتب | مدرسه |
| First month of the year | حمل | فروردین |
Check 04 · Letters
The standard
We found no print-industry checklist built for Pashto and Dari, so we wrote our own. Every file passes all eight points before it goes to press.
Automated
Automated + linguist
Automated + linguist
Automated
Linguist
Linguist
Regulatory review
Cultural Compliance Bureau
Automated checks run on every file in seconds. People make every language decision. AI checks the work; it never writes your Pashto or Dari.
Why Ariana Nexus
Ariana Nexus is a consulting and professional services firm, not a print shop. We take responsibility for the whole job, from the words to the delivery.
Not a designer who happens to speak Pashto: a team that reads every line it prints.
Made to order
Choose what you need in six short steps. The summary shows how we would scope it and the checks it needs, and goes with your request.
The Afghan business print calendar
The atelier
Deliverable
Deliverable
Deliverable
Deliverable
Nothing prints until you approve a proof.
Deliverable
Deliverable
Before you decide
Every quote is written for your project. These are the things that move it.
Index
Everything an Afghan-owned business prints, in Pashto, Dari, English and the other languages your customers read.
Clientele
Afghan-owned businesses and Afghan diaspora enterprises in every industry, Afghan families, and any organization that serves Afghan customers, from one wedding or one storefront to enterprise rollouts.
And Afghan families, from the engagement to the wedding, from Eid to a memorial gathering.
For familiesStandards
Rules
We check each one before print. These are the rules buyers most often miss. This is a language and format review, not legal advice.
| Rule | Authority | Applies to | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rule21 CFR 101.15(c)(2) | AuthorityFDA | Applies toU.S. food labels | What it meansIf any label text is in Pashto or Dari, every required statement must appear in that language too. |
| Rule27 CCR 25602(d) | AuthorityCalifornia Proposition 65 | Applies toCalifornia consumer products | What it meansWhere a warning is required and a sign, label or shelf tag gives consumer information in another language, the warning must appear in that language as well as English. |
| Rule49 CFR 390.21T | AuthorityFMCSA | Applies toCommercial vehicles | What it meansCarrier name and USDOT number on both sides, in a contrasting color, legible from 50 feet in daylight. |
| Rule19 CFR Part 134 | AuthorityU.S. Customs and Border Protection | Applies toImported goods | What it meansCountry of origin marked in English, such as “Product of Afghanistan”, legibly and permanently. |
| Rule2010 ADA Standards, §703 | AuthorityU.S. Department of Justice | Applies toPermanent room signs | What it meansRaised characters and Grade 2 Braille in English, with Pashto or Dari added as visual text. |
| RuleCharter of the French Language | AuthorityQuébec | Applies toSigns and advertising in Québec | What it meansWhere another language appears on signs and advertising, French must be markedly predominant; the rules tightened on June 1, 2025. |
| RuleConsumer Packaging and Labelling Act | AuthorityCanada | Applies toPrepackaged products in Canada | What it meansMandatory label information generally in both English and French, with limited exemptions. |
| RuleRegulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Art. 15 | AuthorityEuropean Union; retained in UK law | Applies toFood sold in the EU and the UK | What it meansMandatory food information in a language easily understood where the food is sold, such as German in Germany or English in the UK. |
Discretion
Your print files carry your brand, your prices and sometimes your customers' data. We handle them that way.

The atelier team
Ariana Nexus is led by alumni and scholars of Cornell University, Brown University, the University of Chicago, the University of British Columbia and Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. They work with native Pashto and Dari linguists and the firm's Cultural Compliance Bureau, so every language decision on your print job is made by a person who reads it.

Managing Partner
Hassan Ukasha, Managing Partner of Ariana Nexus, grew up in Herat. He oversees the firm's overall operations and holds executive accountability for every print program, for businesses and families alike, from the first brief to the final delivery.
Languages: Pashto, Dari, English, Urdu, Hindi; working Arabic

Senior Partner
Builds the client vault and the systems that track every file, proof and approval. She lived in Kabul.

Engagement Manager
Runs print engagements for business clients: the brief, the schedule and delivery to every location.

Principal
Leads regulatory review of labels, signs and vehicle markings: FDA, Proposition 65, Canada, Québec and the EU.

Principal
Leads proofing and quality control: native-reader proofs, hard proofs and press checks.

Analyst
Builds the automated Unicode, glyph and preflight checks that run on every file.
Languages
Pashto is set in the variety your customers and guests read, from Kandahari to Nangarhari wording. Dari, the Afghan form of Persian that many people search for as Farsi, is set in Afghan Dari, never Iranian Persian, with Kabuli, Herati, Hazaragi or Badakhshani wording where your audience expects it.
Iranian
Turkic
Indo-Aryan
Nuristani
Dravidian
Perso-Arabic
Pashto, Dari, Uzbeki, Turkmeni, Balochi and other Afghan languages; Urdu; Arabic
Latin
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish
Hebrew
Hebrew
Cyrillic
Russian
Devanagari
Hindi
Han
Chinese
Coverage
From our headquarters in Washington, D.C., Ariana Nexus serves businesses in all 50 states, and in Canada, Europe and Australia, depending on the type and scale of the project.
All 50 states
Beyond the United States
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Engagements
For restaurant groups, grocery chains, franchises and food brands
For businesses that print all year
For a new location
For families planning a wedding, engagement or other occasion
For one piece or one run

Glossary
Questions
Yes. Ariana Nexus prints in Pashto, Dari and 22 more Afghan languages, in 13 international languages including Urdu, Arabic, Turkish and German, and in English. Native linguists write and typeset every Pashto and Dari line, and each file passes our eight-point Pashto and Dari print check before it goes to press.
Business cards, letterhead, menus, storefront and window signs, banners, flyers and brochures, food and product labels, packaging, shelf tags, receipt books and forms, vehicle and fleet graphics, safety signs, uniforms and branded merchandise, catalogs, books and magazines, and for families, wedding and engagement invitations, Eid and Nowruz cards, Solar Hijri calendars and Ramadan timetables.
Yes. We write, set and print wedding (wada in Pashto, arosi in Dari) and engagement (kozhda, namzadi) invitations in Pashto, Dari and English, with wording that follows Afghan custom, Solar Hijri and Gregorian dates, and envelopes addressed from your guest list. Start about eight weeks before the date.
Yes. We print for engagements and shirini-khori, henna nights, nikah, aqiqa, birthdays, graduations, Eid and Nowruz, khatm-e Quran and memorial gatherings, from a single card to a full suite.
Yes. Disconnected or reversed letters, missing Pashto letters and empty boxes come from software or typefaces that do not handle right-to-left Perso-Arabic text. We rebuild the text layer in a typeface that carries every Pashto letter, have a native reader check it, and return a press-ready file that keeps your design.
Either. Our linguists write and translate Pashto, Dari and other Afghan-language copy for menus, signs, labels and marketing, or review a translation you already have. Machine translation is never printed without a native linguist's review, because menus, labels and signs are where machine errors show most.
In the United States, if a food label carries any representation in another language, FDA rule 21 CFR 101.15(c)(2) requires every required statement in that language too. California's Proposition 65 sets a similar rule for warnings. Canada requires English and French, and Québec requires French to be markedly predominant on signs. We check each rule before print.
Yes. We set wedding invitations, engagement cards and wall calendars with Solar Hijri dates and the Afghan month names, Wray to Kab in Pashto and Hamal to Hut in Dari, not the Iranian month names many templates use. For 1406, which begins at Nowruz on March 21, 2027, order calendars in January or early February.
Ariana Nexus works with businesses in all 50 U.S. states from its headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in Canada, Europe and Australia, depending on the type and scale of the project. Multi-location orders ship to each location with its own packing list.
The schedule is set in the brief. Reprints of approved files move fastest; new Pashto and Dari copy adds translation and proofing time; packaging, large-format signs and multi-location rollouts take longer. For Ramadan, Eid, Nowruz and wedding-season printing, start six to eight weeks ahead.
Every file passes our eight-point check and a native-reader proof before you approve it. If a Pashto or Dari error we set still reaches print, we reprint at our cost.
Yes. A sample pack of stocks and finishes can come with your proposal, and every order starts with a proof you approve before anything prints.
Files, proofs and approvals stay in a private client vault with named-user access, multi-factor sign-in and an activity log. Every team member signs a non-disclosure agreement before seeing client files. Mailing lists are used only for your job and deleted on request, and nothing is routed through channels controlled by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan.
No. We print for Afghan families and for any organization that needs Pashto, Dari or other Afghan-language materials, including banks, health plans, retailers, clinics, schools and nonprofits that serve Afghan customers, as well as Afghan-owned businesses in every industry.
We accept Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop files, PDF, Microsoft Word and Canva designs. We deliver press-ready PDF/X-4 files and editable source files, and for packaging and signs, files built to the dieline, all kept in your vault for reorders.
Yes, with care. Our Cultural Compliance Bureau reviews religious text, names and honorifics before print and advises on placement, for example keeping sacred text off napkins, bags and other items that are thrown away.
A print shop is set up to print the file it is given. Ariana Nexus takes responsibility for the whole job: the words, the Pashto and Dari typesetting, the label rules, the proofs, the production standard and the delivery, under one engagement and one point of accountability.
Related
Request
Send us your list, your event date or the file that came out wrong. We reply with a print brief, the checks it needs and a schedule.
We sign a non-disclosure agreement before you share files.