This helps spooks starting with the romanised versions of , say , pushtu names , to gather intelligence on those individuals in their native afghanistan .
New york detectives are deployed in 11 foreign cities , and departmental linguists at home ( including native speakers of arabic , pushtu and bengali ) look and listen out for worrying chatter .
But to be fair to the nypd , recruits who are native speakers of languages such as arabic , pushtu and bengali are often assigned to counter-terrorism duties .
