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.
Only by becoming part of the nature, the natural beings reveal and speak to the humans. To see the creatures of sacred nature, including ibex, the hunter has to purify his eyes and soul. Eyes are the reflection of soul. If eyes are…
For the past three years, I have been drawn back to a place of wild beauty and untamed serenity—the basecamp of Batin Peak. Nestled deep within the mountains, this rugged paradise feels like a hidden world untouched by time, where nature…
Somewhere in a remote wilderness we would discover a hermitage With your crimson lips you would whisper sweetnesses I would gather splinters you would kindle the fire My hands would go numb you would wipe my fingers This moment could…
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…
