Chawmos, a festival of Pakistan’s tiny Kalash community, is a portrait in contrasts: solemn ritual and joyous dancing, gender segregation and public flirtation, togetherness and isolation.

14 Local Muslim men inside a teahouse near the Kalash villages. Khattak said the future appears shaky for Kalash culture, particularly with the issue of Islamic schooling, and terrorism.

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.

The Kalash spring festival (Joshi), which lasts four days, takes place in mid May. During the first day of the festival each house provides wine and milk that has been stored for 10 days.

But the Kalash does not believe in divine books and messengers. That belief makes them “kafirs” or infidels in the eyes of Muslim communities, say critics, which has triggered the race for ...

High in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountains, scattered villages hold one of the world’s most imperiled religious minorities, the Kalash. Daud Khattak, a correspondent with RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal, visited ...

Kalash men normally wear shalwar-kameez, a combination of long tunics and trousers, with Chitrali caps that could be black or white. Boy's birth.

He said that Kalash men and women danced to the tune of flute to express their merriment. Meanwhile, a young man of 22 years in Rech village of Upper Chitral made a sort of record by solemnising ...

The third and most recent attack in Rumbur Valley’s pastures was repulsed as around 260 Kalash men rushed up to the mountain to protect their livestock.