I am standing on a roof in the mountains of the Kalash valleys. Below me hundreds of men are screaming and shouting as two small wooden balls are hit up the slopes by opposing teams of players. Women ...

“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 ...

Living in harmony with nature in three secluded valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains and celebrating the changing seasons according to their pre-Islamic religion for centuries, the ancient Kalash tribe ...

ISLAMABAD: In order to preserve endangered living culture of Kalash Valley, the government documented it for inscription in World Heritage List of Unesco. A one-day workshop was organised on Wednesday ...

Gulf News travelled to Pakistan's Chitral district only to find that the Kalash society is on the verge of extinction. Declaring the valleys of the Kalash a protected area would go a long way in ...

A girl stands in the village of Bumberet in the Kalash Valley. Kalash Valley, Pakistan: Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and ...

Gulf News found out that the Kalash still follow centuries-old customs and rituals Kalash is a place out of this world. There are no doctors, no mobile phones, no newspapers and no tarmac roads. But ...

High in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountains, scattered villages hold one of the world’s most imperiled religious minorities, the Kalash. Daud Khattak, a correspondent with RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal, visited ...