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KALASHA - Pagan sect at Pakistan border lives amid conservative Muslims

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« on: June 03, 2008, 09:21:02 am »




                                                                       









Kalash: Inland island cultural refuge



One highlight of any trip to NW Pakistan is a visit to the Kalash Valleys.

A small pocket of 3000 people remain from what was once a much larger culture.

Near the middle of a Muslim part of the world around the size of Australia, these people have managed to preserve their unique pagan lifestyle against the odds.

Their name translated as “black infidels” due to the color of their traditional clothing and “heretical” beliefs in the eyes of Islam.

Although the men dress like Muslim Pakistanis, the women embellish their black robes with colorful spangles and often have tattooed faces.

I was fortunate to have talked with the tribe’s chief to have arrived in time for the Utchal festival celebrating the wheat and barley harvests.

Mirth and merriment abound while drumming, chanting and a circular dance procession go on late into the night and resume the following day.


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