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
