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Akhund Salaak : The Soldier Saint
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
Colonisation 3.0
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.,…
The unmaking of paradise: Literacy as Trojan Horse – Part III
If we can learn to identify how our paradise is being kept hostage by a dependence on colonial approaches to literacy and education, then, it is possible for us to gain independence from colonial powers by developing and using alternative…
In the Battle Against Coronavirus, Humanity Lacks Leadership—–by Yuval Noah Harari
Once scientists understood what causes epidemics, it became much easier to fight them. Vaccinations, antibiotics, improved hygiene, and a much better medical infrastructure have allowed humanity to gain the upper hand over its invisible…
Venom and Vengeance in Gilgit and Kohistan
In July 2019, four people of Ghizer district were abducted by a Kohistani tribal leader from a meadow in Hundarap valley in Gilgit-Baltistan. The valley borders with Kohistan district of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. Later, a FIR was lodged against…
The Nation and Marginal Imagination
The Nation and Marginal Imagination History is the cruelest of all the events in the annals of human civilization because it lives within us despite the fact that it occurred decades, centuries, or even millennia ago. Not only this, it…
Book review: The Land East of the Asterisk
by Wendy Doniger Book: Indo-European Poetry and Myth Author: M.L. West. Publisher: Oxford, 525 pp., £80, May 2007, 978 0 19 928075 9 Nineteenth-century German and British linguists, building on some 18th-century hunches, uncovered the…
Historicizing Bear in Chitral
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.…
Khushal Khan Khattak was neither a Turk nor a hermit
Akhundzada Arif Hasan Khan, a self-proclaimed Tajik from Shabqadar (Charsada), has made some mind warping claims in his latest article "Pashtuns and Gandhara: on Pashtun-Afghan ethnogenesis" https://wemountains.com/10/26/1434/. He has made…
Negotiating Pluralism
For human being diversity in terms of physiognomy, religion, ethnicity, culture and language has remained a perpetual existential reality that forces humans to create conducive environment for diverse people to interact within the framework…
