“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, Feb 13: If asking for a 'telephone' or 'cooker' in the remote Kalash valley of Rumbur or Bumburate the local people lead you to someone's house; take it easy as Kalash people have been naming ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The charming young men, kids and elders of the Kalash tribe celebrate the Joshi Festival in May by dancing and paying thanks to God while waving the branching of hickory tree in their hands. Some call ...

I heard a lot about magnificent Kalash Valley and its beautiful people but never got a chance to go there. So, when I got an opportunity to visit Kalash Valley, situated in Chitral, I was more than ...

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 ...