Kabul-My Love

by Pamir Scahill

We were near to land at Kabul International Airport. My mother told me to look downward from the window of Arianna International Airlines’ new and huge plane. Down what I saw is still recurring in my dreams. The entire city was looking like a huge landscape of illuminating gems, diamonds and crystalline glass of all rainbow colours.

Kalash: An Endangered Culture (Academic Research)

by Pamir Scahill (Follow Pamir Scahill on Twitter) 

Abstract

This paper focuses on cultural patterns of Kalash people in order to explain why Kalasha is isolated and is not integrated to the mainstream Pakistani society? This paper will explain how Kalash culture is at the verge of extinction and is threatened by religious extremists while Pakistan’s State is silent and is not doing enough to preserve this culture or to integrate it in a positive way. The interaction between majority and minority culture also falls under scope of the paper. The paper discusses areas of difficulty between two groups.