To further explain the predicament of Kalash people in terms of the potential loss of ancestral land, attention is invited towards the World Banks’ Operational Directive 4.20, which contains …

A multi-storied Kalash building presents a spectacular view of beautifully carved wooden pillars and beams decorated with unmatchable human and animal figures and effigies.

Kalashas are a Dardic indigenous community residing in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They migrated from a distant legendary place in South …

Eurasian origin of the Kalash people, represented by eight haplogroups. Among these haplogroups, J2b1a7a and R0a5a (accounting for ~50% of the Kalash gene pool) displayed in …

Kalash from their non-Muslim Pagan culture and from all of the culture’s manifestations for the rest of their life. Kalasha conversion to Islam, described by a Kalasha man, is, “being dead in …

The Kalash are the only non-Muslim ethnic group living in three small and beautiful valleys of district Chitral. They are the last tribe of the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. The Kalash exhibit, …

This paper critically reviewed the ethnocultural happenings within the Kalash community in Pakistan which is a small native population subjected to the forces of modernization, …