From online platforms like Etsy to textile markets in Peshawar, traditional garments from Hazara, Kohistan, and the Swat Valley's indigenous Torwali and Gawri communities have become targets of rampant cultural appropriation.
Yacholo/Phuthh is a hairy creature, but his hair is not deemed as a dirty part of the body. In fact, they are considered as a key to wealth. Whoever posses a bundle of Yacholo/Phuthh’s hair he or she becomes rich.
Zubair Torwali is the co-founder and executive director at IBT, a nonprofit advocacy and research organization in Swat Pakistan. He attended the University of Peshawar, Peshawar and studied English literature and language and then joined a…
Jardhang’aaylo: A Mythical Creature of Gilgit-Baltistan By: Aziz Ali Dad In addition to other dimensions of life, the indigenous cosmology of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral grapples with the mystery of death as well. It is this attempt to…
Ten myths that keep us colonised Until a couple of hundred years ago, most human population lived nomadic lives. This changed for most of us when our lands were stolen and/or our elders compromised by deceit, subjugation, and physical as…
On Kho Identity of Chitral whether they are more Dardic, more Pamiri or mixed?
Historicizing Bear in Chitral The history of Chitral, on some of the themes, is replete with symbolism and anecdotes, and some ways it wants indigenous perspectives to taking the readers, from variety of sources, to the point of interest.…
I am subaltern That’s why they don’t like me I am subaltern That’s why they deny me I am subaltern That’s why they devoice me I am subaltern That’s why I don’t know Stupid Crazy Wrong Weak Incorrect That’s what they think of me…
CPEC involves road and rail projects, dams and a pipeline from Gwadar to Xinjiang, but it is very long-term endeavor as a visit to the country revealed
“Ahmar, my friend, you live in Western civilization, speak and teach the language you see as highly oppressive, yet enjoy the benefits of the freedom it affords you to do so, to criticize it publically.” (a comment on my Facebook post that…
