To further explain the predicament of Kalash people in terms of the potential loss of ancestral land, attention is invited towards the World Banks’ Operational Directive 4.20, which contains the definition …

A multi-storied Kalash building presents a spectacular view of beautifully carved wooden pillars and beams decorated with unmatchable human and animal figures and effigies.

Kalashas are a Dardic indigenous community residing in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They migrated from a distant legendary place in South Asia called 'Tsiyam', a …

Eurasian origin of the Kalash people, represented by eight haplogroups. Among these haplogroups, J2b1a7a and R0a5a (accounting for ~50% of the Kalash gene pool) displayed in situ differ

Kalash from their non-Muslim Pagan culture and from all of the culture’s manifestations for the rest of their life. Kalasha conversion to Islam, described by a Kalasha man, is, “being dead in cultural sense, …

The Kalash are the only non-Muslim ethnic group living in three small and beautiful valleys of district Chitral. They are the last tribe of the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. The Kalash exhibit, perhaps, one of …

This paper critically reviewed the ethnocultural happenings within the Kalash community in Pakistan which is a small native population subjected to the forces of modernization, conversion to religion …