Culture of chitral

Kalash Community Celebrates Uchal Festival

Staff Correspondent CHITRAL: The celebrations of the traditional Kalash Uchal Festival concluded in Kalash valleys of Chitral with a large number of tourists from different areas of Pakistan and abroad visiting the area. The annual festival, celebrated by the Kalash community, is a thanksgiving occasion marking the successful harvesting and threshing of wheat and barley […]

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کھوار اور توروالی کے مشترکات

داد بیداد ڈاکٹرعنایت اللہ فیضی کھوار اور توروالی دو ہند آریائی زبانیں ہیں جو عالمی زبانوں کی انڈو یورپین شاخ سے تعلق رکھتی ہیں دونوں زبانوں کو داردی گروپ میں رکھا گیا ہے جو زبانوں کا ذیلی گروپ ہے، حا ل ہی میں ادا رہ برائے تعلیم و تر بیت بحرین سوات نے ریسرچ سکا

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Qaqlasht festival from April 17

Jamshed Ahmad Chitral’s famous traditional and cultural festival, Jashn-e-Qaqlasht 2025, will commence on April 17 and continue for four days. This announcement was made at a meeting of the Jashn-e-Qaqlasht Committee held at Qaqlasht under the chairmanship of Chief Patron Mukhtar Ahmad Sangeen. The meeting was attended by committee members and sports conveners, although Committee

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PPP Chitral leaders asked to apologize to poet Afzalullah Afzal

CHITRAL: Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Khowar (Chitral chapter) at an emergency meeting on Wednesday  condemned  \”offensive remarks\” made by PPP Chitral leaders and activists against Afzalullah Afzal, a known poet and literary figure of Khowar language. The remarks were made over a video clip from a humorous poem Afzal presented in a 2021 poetry session, which was recently

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Chitral State – A Legal History

Reviewed by Dr Inayatullah Faizi The princely state of Chitral ruled by despotic Mehtar was one of the 600 infamous autonomous entities of the Indian subcontinent before the emergence of Pakistan. Due to its close proximity to the borders of Afghanistan, Russia and China, the princely state remained in the limelight during the “Great Game”

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