Twelve people, including teachers, local researchers, language activists and writers from the language community, attended the workshop which aimed at training them in how to document their mother tongue, Yidgha, says a press release issued by the FLI. Yidgha is spoken in Lotkuh, a valley lying some 46km west of Chitral town, and is one
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‘Binisik’ is one of 19 festivals planned to be organized in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Chitral under a project being implemented by Hashoo Foundation (HF) in partnership with the Centre for Culture and Development (CKU). These efforts are being made towards reviving traditional festivals which are on the verge of extinction. Binisik is the traditional festival
Community leaders, teachers, professionals and students participated in the five-day-long workshop. After the five days’ of intensive brainstorming, group work and discussion with speakers and participants including the language experts outlined Yidgha alphabets, vowels, consonants, compound words, nouns and verbs. A complete report on the workshop will be presented to the Yidgha Language Committee during
During the visit of the Khowar poets, a special literary sitting was arranged in their honours at the Radio Pakistan Gilgit. Led by Dabistan-e-Booni vice-president Hafiz Ullah Amin, the delegation consisted of young poets Talat Mehmood, Muhammad Zafar Hayat, Sahib Wali Asra and Saeed Kainati. The main objective of the visit was to promote and
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Moscow City is celebrating its 868th birth anniversary and the music festival is part of the celebrations. The IMMF parade takes place each year in September with the best Russian and international military orchestras performing together at Moscow`s Red Square for nine days. An ISPR release said Pakistan tri-services band performed at Sokolniki Park and
