Kalash festival & Mr Executive!
The kalasha festival JHOOSHI or CHELIMJHOST started on May 13, 2015 and will continue up to May 16, 2015 of the same month. Jhooshi is the mega religious festival of kalasha tribe in which the people of kalash actively participated in the various events like folk song and folk dance.
Before the start of Jhooshi festival, May 11,2015, a report was published in a local online newspaper about the opening ceremony of chelimjhost festival in a Urdu title name “LASH QABILAY KA MAZHABI TEHWAAR” instead of “KALASH QABILAY KA MAZHABI TEHWAAR” actually show printing mistake. But a nice missing of the word “KA” of Urdu make the title very attractive. As the word “LASH” in Urdu means “Dead body” while the word ”KALASH” (KA – LASH) represents the minority tribe in district Chitral. The meaning of the supra mentioned Urdu title in English will be as “The dead body tribe’s religious festival” while the correct title is “Kalasha tribe’s religious festival”.
Whether it’s the first incorrect title or the second correct title, irrespective of the title, still the Jhooshi festival is the religious as well as cultural festival of Kalasha people purely based on superstitious and mythological stories without any authentic compilation of religious testaments’. Hence, the festival is a source of attraction for tourism industry as well as attracts both the local and foreigner tourists around the country and world. Therefore, the local govt, provincial govt and tourism corporation of the country should focus and concentrate to promote the tourism industries as well as facilitates the tourist to participate in the festival. Secondly, in the same newspaper another report published of the Executive Luke Rehmat of KDN (kalash development network) blaming the local govt, provincial govt and tourism corporation of Pakistan, for not facilitating the tourists for the incoming festival Jhooshi and make no proper arrangement and management regarding the festivals and for the tourist. While further, Mr. executive along with local kalasha people also develop rules and regulations for visitors and tourists in Jhooshi 2015.
Let us consider, Mr. Executive KDN, if the local govt, provincial govt and tourism corporation are not facilitating the tourism industries as well as the kalsha festival, then the statement would be acceptable on logical ground, that it’s a religious festival of our kalasha people and we collectively responsible for this kind of act, but administratively the statement of not cooperating is totally against the administration of local govt and provincial govt because majority of population are still confused to differentiate about the “JHOOSHI” that’s it’s a festival or a sort of “Entertainment”, if it’s a festival then the local govt having no responsibility to facilitate the tourist but if it’s an entertainment then the local govt having no responsibility to facilitate the tourist as the tourist conduct their picnic any where even in kalasha. Mr. Executive KDN with due apology the last ceremony of JHOOSHi 2014 was just an entertainment rather than a religious festival or it was entertainment cum festival as Khyber musical bands celebrated the religious festival of kalasha people, why?.
Thus Mr. Executive KDN needs to preserve the religious festivals of kalasha people rather than blaming the local govt, pprovincial govt and tourism corporation to provide facilities for the tourists in an entertainment days the jhooshi instead of festival. Next the country like Pakistan is a security state not a luxurious state as we are in a war not in a beech of Dubai, therefore should celebrate and perform our religious ceremonies just like a religious festival instead of a picnic and entertainment.
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