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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