A Kalash woman wearing a traditional dress takes a selfie with her friends on May 16 during a break as they celebrate Joshi, a festival to welcome the arrival of spring, at Bumburate village in ...

Kalash men and women in traditional costumes dancing during the “Joshi” celebration to welcome the arrival of spring at the remote Bumburate village in northern Pakistan. Photo courtesy ...

CHITRAL: It was a rare occasion in Rumbur valley when a pilgrim was given a ‘red-carpet’ welcome by the people of Kalash community including women and children, who received him with ...

Welcome to Kalash. "Please don't take my picture as our culture doesn't allow us to do so in mourning," Gull told me as we went to her house in the middle of wheat fields in Bumburet, one of the ...

Welcome to Chitral, where rose-filled valleys ... a lineage that traces back to Alexander The Great. The intrigue of the Kalash people — an ethnic and religious minority indigenous to the ...

"If they don't respect us, we don't need tourists," says Yasir Kalash, the vice president of the local hotel association. "If they respect... our culture and traditions, we must welcome [them]." ...

An imperceptible change descends on the environment long before the ‘Welcome to Kalash’ boards appear. Annoyance at the innumerable military checkposts dissipates as the doodh-pati coloured ...

ISLAMABAD: The annual week-long historic Kalash tribe’s colorful ‘Choimus festival has formally begun to attract a large number of tourists from all corners of the country and abroad ...

GORAKHPUR: The Jal Kalash Yatra, carrying holy waters from the rivers of Nepal for jalabhishek of Lord Rama in Ayodhya, reached the Gorakhnath Temple amidst a warm welcome from the Vishwa Hindu ...

CHITRAL: A day after clashes broke out in Chitral between Muslims and people of Kalash tribe over an alleged forced conversion of a Kalash girl to Islam, the district administration aided by local ...