Dancing in the Birir festival.–Photo Courtesy Dawn All About Lifestyles The Kalasha people, or ‘Kafir’ Kalash, as they are generally called, live in three remote valleys in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

The annual Chomos festival came to an end with a steady rhythm on the drums as Baitan, the religious leader of the Kalasha, made prosperous predictions for the New Year in a charsue, or a dancing ...

Chawmos, a festival of Pakistan’s tiny Kalash community, is a portrait in contrasts: solemn ritual and joyous dancing, gender segregation and public flirtation, togetherness and isolation. Photographs ...

The shaking bodies on drum beat are giving the message of spring. Sometimes there is zaftig style of serpentine dance and at times nymphs dancing in chorus seem happy in the delight of spring, along ...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were welcomed by hundreds of excited well-wishers today as they visited a remote settlement of Pakistan and learned about the culture of the Kalash people on their ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We headed up the mountain in the moonlight, through a forest of holly oaks and walnuts, dotted with crudely carved ...

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 ...

Wearing traditional headgear and clapping to music, Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate met a tiny animist tribe in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, after flying by helicopter to a remote Hindu ...

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 ...

Dancing in the Birir festival.–Photo Courtesy Dawn All About Lifestyles The Kalasha people, or ‘Kafir’ Kalash, as they are generally called, live in three remote valleys in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...