In a far-flung corner of the world, where the tides of the Tethys Sea once ebbed and flowed, the Himalayas, Pamir and Karakoram mountains now jostle each other for elbow room: tilting, sliding, ...

Afroze Numa is one of the last Wakhi shepherdesses keeping a centuries-old tradition alive Standing out in BBC’s 2023 list of 100 most inspiring women, Afroze Numa from the Karakoram Highlands of ...

Speakers at a condolence reference paid homage to Prof Dr Boghshoh Lashkarbekov, an eminent linguist, scholar and intellectual, who contributed immensely to the promotion of Wakhi Pamiri language and ...

Three of the last Wakhi shepherdesses: Sakina (left), Thai Bibi (centre) and Annar (right) For centuries, Pakistan's Wakhi shepherdesses have trekked to remote mountain pastures to graze their flocks.

For generations, Pakistan's Wakhi people have herded each summer in Pamir, a high-altitude grassland that is vital to raising the livestock upon which they depend. The difficult trek there along ...

"An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan, originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed ...

THIS is apropos the story ‘Proposed national curriculum ignores mother languages’ (Jan 20). As a native speaker of a critically endangered language, Wakhi — the language of the people of Wakhan — I ...

ISLAMABAD Folk artists clad in traditional white and burnishing gold Chogha enthralled a select gathering by singing Sho Muborakbod, a traditional song to welcome guests, to herald the beginning of a ...

PASU, Pakistan—Sajid Alvi is excited. He just got a grant to study in Sweden. “My Ph.D. is about friction in turbo jet engines,” Alvi says. “I will work on developing new aerospace materials—real ...

For centuries, Pakistan's Wakhi shepherdesses have trekked to remote mountain pastures to graze their flocks. The income they generated has been pivotal in transforming their community, helping to pay ...