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
Muhammad Huzaifa The story of a Macedonian conqueror’s wayward expedition to conquer the known world was given a sort of rebirth when the British conquered the Indus region. The British, who in the Macedonian’s success sought a mirror of their own invasions of the Indian Subcontinent, wrote a great deal analyzing and explaining the “Indian
CHITRAL: Chilim Jusht spring festival of Kalash people concluded in Bumburate valley on Saturday with the ritual dance by young men and women for five days but without tourists from outside due to the coronavirus pandemic. This year round the Chilim Jusht festival was sombre due to coronavirus pandemic as non-locals and tourists were not
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CHITRAL: Chilim Jusht spring festival is in progress in all the three valleys of Bumburate, Birir and Rumbur amid merrymaking, including open door ritual of dancing of men and women at the dancing place called Jastakhan. Said Gul of Bumburate said the major event of the day was Chhirpeyak ritual which was being performed in
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Wazir Ali Shah With the current pandemic, our life has been deferred between hope and disparity. A race to clinch the flagship of discovering the nature fall asleep to conquer the new horizon. The human capability has almost failed to get relief from this minor test of Almighty God. The head of states are in
