“We are a very strange people and this is why you are here,” Engineer Khan told a small group of primarily Pakistani tourists and journalists at the Kalash Home Guest House, which he and his family ...

BUMBURET VALLEY, Pakistan — Din Mohammed rises at 4 a.m. and heads out into the pre-dawn chill. The village and surrounding hills, cast in blue moonlight, take on the quality of a dream. He picks his ...

After deciding to enact a law for the recognition of their marriages, the provincial government has approved the establishment of the Kalash Valleys Development Authority (KVDA) to preserve the ...

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a workshop stressed the need for safeguarding and preservation of unique Kalash culture in Chitral district. The two-day capacity building workshop was held at Area Study Centre, ...

CHITRAL, June 3: Owing to increasing influence of the outside world on the lives of local people because of visits by large number of foreign tourists and opening of educational institutions in the ...

“To travel is to live,” Hans Christian Anderson. If I ever have to make a wish list, travelling and exploring the world will be the first thing I start with. Pakistan is a country that is blessed with ...

The Kalash tribe celebrates the two-week Chawmos festival in Chitral valley, featuring traditional rituals, music, dance, and ...

KALASH VALLEY, Pakistan -- Hidden in the mountains near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances for days at colorful festivals, and practices a ...

About a month ago, a 50-minute-long video message by the TTP created panic among Kalash and Ismaili communities living in Chitral. "By the grace of Allah, an increasing number of people from the ...

Rising Islamic conversions, migrations are prompting activists to seek placement on Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Pakistan’s smallest religious minority, the Kalash speak their own language and ...