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 ...

Pakistan's smallest religious minority, the Kalash speak their own language and celebrate their gods through music, dance -- and alcohol, which they brew themselves in Chitral's plunging verdant ...

New Delhi: In the mountains of Chitral district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, live Kalash people who look like Europeans.

The community of 3,000 is polytheistic, speaks an Indo-European language, and traces its origins to Alexander the Great’s army. With fair skin and light eyes, its members face an uphill battle to pass ...

Conservative Muslims accuse the minority community of causing last month’s earthquake. Conservative Muslims in Pakistan’s northwest are blaming the animist Kalash for a powerful earthquake that ...

In the coming weeks, Shaheen Buneri will explore Kalash culture, shedding some light on ''Pakistan's Last Pagan Tribe." Some call members of the Kalash tribe the descendants of Alexander the Great. A ...

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 ...

For the first time since Indo Pak partition, Pakistan government has begun installation of shikhar kalash (peak urn) on the domes of Hindu temples which are believed to have been plundered decade ago ...

CHITRAL: Pakistan's smallest religious minority, the Kalash speak their own language and celebrate their gods through music, dance -- and alcohol, which they brew themselves in Chitral's plunging ...