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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ISLAMABAD: Chitrali students studying at the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) arranged a function at a community centre aimed at promoting the Khow culture of Chitral. Chitrali families living in Rawalpindi and Islamabad and people from Gilgit-Baltistan along with students from different countries also attended the event. Chitrali souvenirs such as kaphol (caps) were
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A special Chitrali cap takes hours of meticulous handcrafting Recent visit of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Chitral has boosted countrywide sales PESHAWAR: Every winter, the traditional wool apparel business, especially Chitrali caps and chughas, in Peshawar’s historic Chitral bazaar begins to boom. The bazaar was first established by shopkeepers from
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ISLAMABAD: Folk musicians from Gilgit-Baltistan mesmerised the audience at the annual Lok Mela, held at the Lok Virsa in Shakarparian Saturday night. Artists who performed at the event included Salman Paras, Manzoor Baltistani, Saddique Mughal, Rashid Iqbal, Iqbal Hussain, Doulat Wali Baig and the dance group Barmi Harees. A statement issued by Lok Virsa quoting
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Deh ba Deh By Nasira Jabeen Lying at a distance of 85 kilometers from Chitral town, Awi in Upper Chitral is a valley of considerable length, stretching from the eastern end of Booni and narrowing up to the threshold of Meragram No.1. With river Mastuj flowing alongside, Awi spreads to claim seven kilometers of length.
