  We study the unpolarized fragmentation functions and parton distribution
functions of the pion employing the nonlocal chiral quark model. This model
manifests the nonlocal interactions between the quarks and pseudoscalar mesons
in the light-cone coordinate. It turns out that the nonlocal interactions
result in substantial differences in comparison to typical models with only
local couplings. We also perform the high Q^2-evolution for our results
calculated at a relatively low renormalization scale Q^2 ~ 0.36 GeV}^2 to be
compared with the experimental data. Our results after evolution are in
qualitatively good agreement with those data.
