BUMBURATE: Religious leaders and Qazis of the Kalash community on Saturday said there has been a reduction of about 50 per cent in the celebration of traditional and cultural events of the Kalasha tribe over the years. They were addressing a gathering of Kalash people at Kalasa Dur in connection with the World Indigenous People’s […]
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BUMBURATE: The Kalash community is all set to observe the World Indigenous Peoples Day to be held on Aug 9. In this regard, preparations have been finalized in the three valleys of Birir, Rumbur and Bumburate. Kalasha Dur chairman Bakhtawar Shah told ChitralToday that religious leaders, elders and people from different walks of life from
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On a day in early May 2019, scholars, writers and activists from the mountain communities of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gathered in Bahrain, a scenic town 65 kilometres north of Mingora in Swat district. Coordinated by a local organisation in collaboration with the University of Sydney, the one-day gathering was an attempt to deliberate the
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By Mohammad Ilyas Khwaja (Goldoor Chitral). A language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing. A Mother tongue is defined as the first language that a person learns and the language used in that person\’s home country. An example of mother tongue is English for someone
BUMBURATE: In a remote valley dozens of Kalash women dance to celebrate spring’s arrival — but as a gaggle of men scramble to catch them on camera, the community warns an influx of domestic tourists is threatening their unique traditions. Every year the Kalash — a group of less than 4,000 people confined to a
