CHITRAL: Speakers at a function held at Kalasha Dur Museum in Bumburate stressed the need to promote tourism in order to ensure development of the backward but scenic areas of Chitral. The function was arranged in connection with the World Tourism Day and attended by civil society representatives, local people and tourists from different parts […]
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By Manzoor Ali (Read at source) In an enclave of three remote valleys surrounded by the Hindu Kush mountains of northwestern Pakistan live the Kalash people, a tiny minority of animists in a predominantly Muslim country. Outsiders call them Siaposh Kafirs, or black-clad infidels, due to color of their attire, and the Birir, Rumbur, and
Ehtesham Khan PESHAWAR: For the past 10 years, one of the biggest accomplishments of 33-year-old police officer Jamina in the restive Kalash valley is that she has not had to draw on her government-issued firearm even once. In fact, Jamina said she has relied on her education to deal with thorny issues such as domestic
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BUMBURATE: The process for acquisition of land for Kalash festival places and graveyards has started with the distribution of cheques among the landowners In this regard, Commissioner Malakand Division Riaz Khan Mehsud visited Bumburate and Rumbur and distributed checks among the landowners. The commissioner handed over cheques for Rs4.3 million to the landowners for the
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داد بیداد ڈاکٹرعنایت اللہ فیضی ہندو کش کی وا دیوں میں پرو فیسر عبدالرزاق چوہدری کا سفر نا مہ ہے آپ انگریزی پڑھا تے ہیں اور اردو لکھتے ہیں میر پور ازاد کشمیر کی حسین و جمیل وادی کے با سی ہو تے ہوئے انہیں گد گدی ہوئی کہ کسی حوالے سے چترال اور وادی
Fateh Ul Mulk Ali Nasir The Shandur Pass is the junction of the Khowar speaking world. On one side lies Chitral, the heartland of the Kho people and on the other Ghizer, the population of which is not ethnically Kho but started speaking Khowar due to the political and cultural influence of Chitral. Today Khowar is the single largest language in Ghizer
CHITRAL: The proposed \”Fourth International Hindukush Cultural Conference 2020\”, which was scheduled to be held from September 14-16 2020 stands postponed in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent uncertain situation. The decision was made at a meeting of the conference core committee held at Mahraka Guesthouse Chitral on Monday. The meeting was attended by
CHITRAL: The Covid-19 dread has shifted the village hustle and bustle to the pastures in the highlands of Upper Chitral and Lotkoh and Sheshi Koh valleys in Lower Chitral, thus reviving a practice abandoned thanks to modernity. Due to the dependence of the pastoral economy of Chitral on cattle farming, almost each village has its
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Of Moghol Baz, the monster hunter. Chitral is a land where history lives on. People talk of calamities and misfortune from centuries ago as if it were a great personal loss. This is also why it is one of the few places left where the old tales are still told. At the end of March
Fateh-Ul-Mulk The history of Chitral prior to the 1700s is not very well documented. As such any historical writings from before that period are subject to intense scrutiny but the oral traditions of the Kalash as well as the written history of Chitral from the 1700s point to an interesting fact. Both of the Non-Islamic
