Ground Report

CHITRAL: The most unique  community of the world having unique culture, unique traditions, customary,  different methods of religious worship Kalash community celebrating their annual religious festival of Chatarmas.  Kalash ladies preparing traditional food, bread (mixing walnut inside the bread) and cooked on fire which are distributing among their relatives and neighbors.  Young girls singing songs and presenting traditional folk dance and visiting house to house. Young boys and girls distributing traditional food and walnut mixed bread early in the morning among their relatives and neighbors.  Kalash people also prepare statue (portrait just like on the shape of wild animal) from flour and mixing (crushed) walnut  inside it and cooked it by fire. They believe that these statue and shapes of animal prepared from flour are causing for the rest of soul of wild animal as their religious holy relics. They also sacrifices animals but during slaughtering these animal by selves they not allow any Muslim or outsider during 3 days. The festival will be ended on 22^nd December a large number of people were attending these festivals in past but due to kidnapping of a Greek volunteer from Bumborate recently there was no foreigner tourist seen in the valley.