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 ...

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A one-day workshop on the dossier preparation for inscription of the Kalash Valley culture on the World Heritage List was organised at Lok Virsa on Wednesday. The event was jointly organised by the ...

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 ...

PAKISTAN’S smallest ethno-religious community, the Kalash, is on the verge of extinction. What many centuries could not achieve, contemporary factors have nearly managed to accomplish. The National ...

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 Islamic republic. Once a large community that ...

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 ...

The key findings of the latest NCHR report do not augur very well for the future of this marginalised community A recent report compiled by the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) on Kalash, ...

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 ...

A row over a teenager girl's religious conversion has sparked clashes in the Chitral region in north-west Pakistan. The teenager, named as Rina, is from the Kalash minority, a tribe which worships ...

A liberal outlook and festivals where social norms are turned upside down set the Kalash people of north-western Pakistan apart from the rest of the country. But their culture is under threat as ...