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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rising Islamic conversions, migrations are prompting activists to seek placement on Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Pakistan’s smallest religious minority, the Kalash speak their own language and ...

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 ...

High in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountains, scattered villages hold one of the world’s most imperiled religious minorities, the Kalash. Daud Khattak, a correspondent with RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal, visited ...

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 ...