Cross posted from Sadaf Arshad’s blog An honest answer to one simple question about your identity as a Pakistani or a Muslim explains the roots of extremism and an increasing intolerance among this society. I was asked this question many years ago, and my answer was not logical rather an abrupt and sudden gush of [...]
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Kalash falls to Kalash-nikov
Posted in Chitral, Pakistan-A trove of wonders, tagged Chitral, Kalasha, Pakistan on October 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Naw’roz-When Spring Blossoms and Nightingale Sings
Posted in Chitral, Islam, Nasir Khusraw, Sufism, tagged 21st March, Bilhar al-Anwar, Chitral, Chitrali festival, E'ed Nav'roz, Gen. Zia ul Haq, Ghadir-e-Khum., Hazrat Adam(a.s), Imam Jafar Sadiq, Islam in Central Asia, Ismailis, Nasir Khusraw, Nav'roz in Tajikistan, Navroz, Naw’roz-When Spring Blossoms and Nightingale Sings, Nawrooz festival, New day, Nishat Afroz, Pathak, Persian calender on March 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Naw’roz comes when spring blossoms on Earth, when the trees are crowned with leaves, when you hear the nightingale pour out its song for the rose, when the orchards hang out its lanterns. It is a season to celebrate, to enjoy and an expression of elation for body’s soul. To experience this magnificent beauty of [...]
Chitral-Where Time Stops And The Fairies Tread
Posted in Chitral, Pakistan-A trove of wonders, tagged Alexander, Areas to visit, beautiful Pakistan, Chitral, Chitral-Where Time Stops And The Fairies Tread, fun loving people, Game Of King, heaven on earth chitral, Hindukush Range, Kalash of chitral, Kalasha, most beautiful valley, music of reed, Nooruddin Jala, Pakistan, Pakistan's wonders, shandoor polo festival, Shandur Polo, the highest Polo ground in the world, The Peaks of Chitral, the people of chitral on December 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Chitral, the mythical landscape, one of the most natural famous wonders of Pakistan and one of the world’s most beautiful valley, lying in the midst of Hindukush Range. The land of fairytales is blessed naturally with luxuriantly green orchards, streams full of dancing waters, roaring rivers and meadows stretching in the quietude like that of [...]






