CHITRAL: The three-day snow sports festival concluded in Madaklasht village of Sheshi Koh valley on Sunday. Different games involving local and non-local participants were organised, while a number of foreigners also showed up. Held by Hindu Kush Snow Sports Club with the financial assistance of Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, GLOF-II Project, UNDP and ministry of […]
ISLAMABAD: Anthropologists, community leaders and social activists on Saturday called for preserving the indigenous languages of Chitral, besides the local folklore, music which are the assets of intangible heritage of the valleys of this area. Cultural music and dance from the most rugged mountainous region enthralled the dwellers of twin cities on the weekend. Artistes
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DUBAI: Haji Muhammd Zafar from Chitral is well known in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for his services to the Chitralis not only in the UAE but also back home. Though he has lived in the UAE for years, Haji Zafar continues serving his community back home. He has also been actively promoting Chitral\’s culture
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BUMBURATE: There are numerous festivals and traditions which the tiny Kalash community of Chitral continues to celebrate round the year. Many of the festivities running into days and sometimes weeks are related to the changing weathers and keep the members of the community not only engaged to their environment but also bring them the much-needed
ISLAMABAD: Musicians from Gilgit-Baltistan took the stage at the Pakistan National Council of Arts on Saturday to perform music inspired by the poetry of the late Nasir al Din Hunzai. The three-hour concert titled ‘Mystical Musical Colours of Karakoram’ featured spiritual poetry from northern Pakistan. The concert had an intimate atmosphere that felt less like
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KARACHI: People from Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan gathered at Karachi Arts Council on Jan 4 to celebrate the New Year with a grand event highlighting their diverse culture and music. The FEW (Folk Eastern Western) as a sponsor of the event provided a daylong platform for the families of Chitral and GB to meet and share
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CHITRAL: The grand event of Kalash winter festival – Chawmoss or Chitirmas – was celebrated on Sunday with much funfair and splendour. The final dance event was held at Jastkhan in Broon village in Bamburet in pleasant weather. Lower Chitral Deputy Commissioner Naveed Ahmed, District Police Officer Waseem Riaz, local and foreign tourists and a
ISLAMABAD: A bilingual Khowar-English collection of Khowar folk stories, titled Khowar Folktales Volume-1 has been published by Lok Virsa, Islamabad. The book will be available in the market by the next week. This is the first of the larger project signed with Lok Virsa on the volume-wise bilingual documentation and collection of about 300 hundred
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ISLAMABAD: Legend of Khowar music Mansoor Ali Shabab was given Mountain Music Award by DEVCOM Pakistan at COMSATS University in Islamabad on Wednesday in recognition of his services for revitalizing and performing the centuries-old Khowar folk songs and tunes in their original and true essence. The event was attended by British Deputy High Commissioner to
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CHITRAL: The winter festival – Chawmoss – is being celebrated with religious zeal and zest in the Kalsha-inhabited Bumburate, Birir and Rumbur valleys as children collected twigs and branches of pine trees and made a bonfire to participate in the high flame and smoke competitions on Tuesday. Began on December 7 and to be continued
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