Late Monday night, Wazirzada, the Kalash hopeful for a minority seat in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, sat at the house of Shahigul, a social worker in Bamborat who leads the women association in ...

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 ...

For Wazir Kalash, Athanassios Lerounis was a godsend whose charity work largely addressed the socio-economic woes and reasons forcing Kalasha people to leave their unique ancient values and belief ...

Explore the unique isolation of the Kalash population in Pakistan, a distinctive endogamous community shaping genetic analysis. Religion may be a critical explanation for this isolation, because the ...

“Every week we get threats from people who ask us to abandon our traditions,” says Fida, a resident of Bamorat village of the Kalash Valley in Chitral. This is one of the realities that the Kalash ...

On the morning of 6 September 2023, the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) launched a massive attack in the Chitral district of Pakistan. More than 500 TTP militants stormed the checkpoints of Pakistani security ...

When I came to Kalash on a 5-day-trip with a group of journalists and photographers, I was as curious to know about unusual women of Kalash as I was interested in exploring Kalash Valley. There is ...

“Had it been true, today you would not have found me attired in this outfit,” Syed Gul points towards her typical Kalash dress when asked about the issue of forced conversion of Kalash people to Islam ...

The Kalash holds deep symbolism in Hindu rituals, representing abundance, prosperity, and spiritual purity. It is filled with water from the sacred Ganga river, symbolizing the divine energy that ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Years of economic pressures and alleged forced conversions to Islam continue to pose a threat to Pakistan’s tiny Kalash minority, the only pagans in the ...

The Kalash people celebrate their annual Joshi (spring) festival with dancing and wine A liberal outlook and festivals where social norms are turned upside down set the Kalash people of north-western ...