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, ...

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.

In a village in Pakistan’s remote Chipurson Valley in Hunza, just along the Wakhan border of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan, the last surviving members of the ancient Wakhi shepherd ...

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 ...

A Lahore-based group of high-school students is making a breakthrough in documenting and reviving the endangered Wakhi language arly this year, a bunch of high-schoolers, most of them friends or ...

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 ...

In the late 1990s, New York-based photographer Frédéric Lagrange became obsessed with traveling to Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor after reading "A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush," English writer Eric ...

"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 ...

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 ...