Shandur is a mystical place, In Khowar folklore the high mountains are home to fairies. These fairies can be both benign and evil.
Both of the Non-Islamic tribes who at that time dominated the Western and Southern flanks of Chitral had an intense sense of loyalty to the Katoor Mehtar.
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.,…
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…
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…
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…
Those who are interested in knowledge production and dissemination about the mountain communities of High Asia and South Asia please share their papers on a wide range of themes mentioned below.
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…
