Customary practices among Indigenous Torwali community of Swat By Usman Torwali In the lap of Hindukush, nestled in the picturesque landscape of tall wavering alpine trees, snow-caped mountains, pastures, cascading tributaries to the…
Torwali is an indigenous language spoken in the Bahrain and Chail valleys in the upper reaches of the Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. With fewer than 150,000 native speakers, the Torwali language is considered endangered. Speakers of the…
Who does not like chocolates? One would be considered a lucky person if they get a free chocolate bar every day for the rest of their life. They would be even luckier if the number of chocolate bars is increased to two per day. Even three…
The book ‘Etherton at Kashgar: Rhetoric or Reality in the History of the “Great Game”’ is written by Daniel C. Waugh. Washington: Bactrian Press, 2007. 72 pp. Many of the prominent writers have made an attempt in bringing out the…
Akhund Salaak permanently altered the demography of the region by settling the Madakhel, Hasanzai, Akazai, Nusratkhel and Basikhel branches of the Yusufzai tribe in Torghar after Doma’s demise
This essay is based on an understanding that European colonisation was carried out through both physical and socio-semiotic violence. This socio-semiotic violence includes the formation of new concepts and categories in English, e.g.,…
Oral history Kalam—Part I Building of the historic mosque of Kalam Interviewee: Namroz Khan of Yajgal, Kalam Interviewer and translator: Muhammad Zaman Sagar Year: 1998 Kalam bazaar’s current famous historical mosque was built some seven to…
What can an alternative classificatory system and nomenclature for language look like?
Representatives of about 20 indigenous peoples of mountainous regions discuss challenges, opportunities, and strategies at the Conference of Indigenous Community in Bahrain Swat, Pakistan
All English – How about my Tongue? A child is born into lower and lower-middle class families where not all people know English language except two or three members. Despite this fact, the ones with no proficiency in English at all still…
