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Regaining Balance: Relearning religion Why is it that while religions teach peace, people kill and exploit each other in the name of religion? A one-line answer to this question: The term religion leads to a confusion between two things: 1)…

The Revival of Polo in Drosh, Chitral  Drosh is the second largest urban settlement in Chitral and is the southernmost outpost of the Khowar language and the traditional Kho culture. South of Drosh Khowar ceases to be spoken and is replaced…

That’s right. For all the books that humans have written and read across time, we don’t really know much about the world that we live in. And, given the material and social contexts that so many of us live in, there is little reason for us…

The Influential Clan of Ghulkin, upper Hunza Today if one visits different historical areas and sites in Hunza district, one would surely find it surprising to discover Ghulkin’s historic importance. Ghulkin is a village situated between…

If our knowledge is increasing every day (as measured by the number of research publications), why is it that we see such high levels of social and environmental injustice around the world?

Sau-Malik of Gilgit and Chitral and the Mongol War More often than not hidden in the annals of history are instances of smaller nations and kingdoms putting up resistance against vast invading armies. This quality is intrinsic to the sons…

Arandu lies about a hundred kilometers due southwest from Chitral Town and is where our river flows into Afghanistan

  داردستان کا تعارف تحریر: Sviatoslav Kaverin ترجمہ؛ عمران خان آذاد دارد کچھ لوگوں کا گروپ ہے جو داردی زبان بولتے ہیں جس کا تعلق ہند آریائی زبانوں سے ہیں۔ یہ لوگ کابل، چترال، لداخ اور جنوبی کشمیر کے درمیانی علاقوں میں رہتے ہیں جس کی سرحدیں…

Water is a valuable resource which is unfortunately finite. In Gilgit-Baltistan this resource is mainly present in the form of large glaciers, with some of them placed in the list of largest glaciers of the world outside polar regions.…

Swat, Pakistan, year 2007. The Taliban partly deface the Jahanabad Buddha, a colossal sculpture (ca. 7th century CE), which corroborates a past of mosaic intertwined by empires, religions, and peoples.