BUMBURET VALLEY, Pakistan — Din Mohammed rises at 4 a.m. and heads out into the pre-dawn chill. The village and surrounding hills, cast in blue moonlight, take on the quality of a dream. He picks his ...

In a remote valley in Pakistan dozens of Kalash minority women dance to celebrate spring's arrival -- but as a gaggle of men scramble to catch them on camera, the community warns an influx of domestic ...

We accessed the Kalash after making a ten hour journey from the Pashtun-dominated frontier city of Peshawar which lies to the south of the mountains. Approximately seven hours of this journey was made ...

The annual three-day festival kicks off amid stringent security in scenic Chitral. The three-day Kalash spring festival, Chilam Joshi, launched with usual fervor in the Bumboret Valley on May 13, and ...

A girl wears traditional dress in the village of Bumberet in the Kalash Valley in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. KALASH VALLEY, Pakistan -- Hidden in the mountains near ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has listed a tradition of the minority Kalash community in Pakistan on the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of ...

Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances for days at colorful festivals, and practices a religion that holds that ...

While Pakistan is predominantly a Muslim nation, it is home to an ancient pagan people known as the Kalash who claim descent from Alexander the Great. Known for the love of wine, unveiled women, ...

KALASH VALLEY, Pakistan -- Hidden in the mountains near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances for days at colorful festivals, and practices a ...

P Pulse News Agency International by AFP Follow Every year the Kalash -- a group of less than 4,000 people confined to a handful of villages in the north -- greet the new season with animal sacrifices ...