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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