This work was presented at the 9th Joint Symposium on Computational Intelligence (JSCI9), organized by the IEEE-CIS Thailand Chapter, that aims to support research students and young researchers, to create a place enabling participants to share and discuss on their research prior to publishing their works. The event was open to all researchers who want to broaden their knowledge in the field of computational intelligence. The Pashto character database developed in this work is available at GitHub - mudaser37/pashtoCharacterDataset