BUMBURET VALLEY, Pakistan — Din Mohammed rises at 4 a.m. and heads out into the pre-dawn chill. The village and surrounding hills, cast in blue moonlight, take on the quality of a dream. He picks his ...
CHITRAL: The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped, for the first time, bring into the printed form the language of Kalash people, Kalasha, by compiling primers and recording the ...
Community's simple identity put to test as isolation from outside world ends Gulf News spoke to Dr Hafeezur Rahman, professor and chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Quaid-i-Azam University, ...
The Kalash Valley in Chitral is blanketed in snow, the perfect time for the indigenous game, snow golf or crackgar in Kalash language. Rules are simple, clubs are wooden and the puck is placed on tee ...
“We are a very strange people and this is why you are here,” Engineer Khan told a small group of primarily Pakistani tourists and journalists at the Kalash Home Guest House, which he and his family ...
The charming young men, kids and elders of the Kalash tribe celebrate the Joshi Festival in May by dancing and paying thanks to God while waving the branching of hickory tree in their hands. Some call ...
About a month ago, a 50-minute-long video message by the TTP created panic among Kalash and Ismaili communities living in Chitral. "By the grace of Allah, an increasing number of people from the ...
The shaking bodies on drum beat are giving the message of spring. Sometimes there is zaftig style of serpentine dance and at times nymphs dancing in chorus seem happy in the delight of spring, along ...
CHITRAL: The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped, for the first time, bring into the printed form the language of Kalash people, Kalasha, by compiling primers and recording the ...