Kalash children, Kafiristan. Pakistan.

The Kalash are an Indo-Ayrian minority group in Pakistan, living in remote valleys adjacent to the Pakistan border. As non Muslims they come under pressure from extremists who feel these women should be in hijabs and be subservient. They are, in the contrary, confident, boldly dressed in their traditional clothes, and educated. Education is very highly valued. This is a school. Kids have UNICEF bags. The back view of the girls in their daily headgear coming off the field from a game of cricket in school PE lesson.
The picture at the bottom is an imposter ( me) at a village ceremony with local friends.

Nicole Merdrignac, HelenaPF, Doug Shepherd, Erhard Bernstein and 32 other people have particularly liked this photo

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©UdoSm ^club

A wonderful series of pictures especially the lowest... ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡◉ ͜ʖ ͡◉)

2 years ago.

Annemarie ^club

very special this series........ love the traditional dresses ......

great documentation

2 years ago.

Annemarie ^club

ps..you look great!

2 years ago.

Jaap van 't Veen ^club

Beautiful and very colourful series.
Interestting notet.

2 years ago.

Nick Weall ^club

I second Annemarie's post script

2 years ago.

Gudrun ^club

Suits you:-)

2 years ago.

Malik Raoulda ^club

Une superbe et exceptionnelle série admirablement présentée et magnifiquement rendue avec cette magnifique explosion de couleurs.
Bonne et agréable fin de semaine salutaire.

2 years ago.

Günter Klaus ^club

Da hast du sehr schöne Aufnahmen gemacht liebe Diana,gefällt mir sehr gut diesen schönen,farbigen Kleider :))

Wünsche noch ein schönes Wochenende,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))

2 years ago.

Xata ^club

Love to see you there. Hope the muslims don't destroy all this fine culture with their hate for women…

2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

Loose_Grip/Pete ^club

Very interesting as always Diana. The colourful outfit suits you.

2 years ago.

Jean-Paul ^club

Aussergewöhnliche Serie mit sehr interessanten Details im Text.
Ein wunderbares Kleid hast du da an!

2 years ago.

Keith Burton ^club

A delightful and colourful series Diana.............it's lovely to see everyone in tradition dress and I like the contrast with the UNICEF back-packs. I really hope they are left alone to live their lives as they wish to!

You look beautiful in the final PiP...............the traditional dress really suits you.

2 years ago.

Patrick Brandy ^club

Belle série colorées

2 years ago.

tiabunna ^club

Beautiful images of the people and colourful costumes, Diana, not least the last with you. Big huggss.

2 years ago.

Peter_Private_Box ^club

Hi Diana
A very nice set of picture, which I like very much!
Wonderful and interesting costumes and culture
Great to see people and women standing up against these oppressive regimes.
And well done for joining in the spirit of the village!!
Best Wishes, Happy Monday a nice week ahead, and stay safe!!
Peter

2 years ago.

Dominique Sarrazin ^club

Superbe prise de vues, de belles images pleines de sens, de culture et de tradition !

2 years ago.

Eva Lewitus ^club

Beautiful traditional clothes... May they use them for a long, long time.

2 years ago.

J. Gafarot ^club

You are very well assimilitad and a lovely sught.
Abraça cara Amiga.

2 years ago.

Yves Saulnier

Belles photos, et le dernière est extraordinaire même si l'on doute tout de suite que n'est pas originaire du pays, super sympathique.

2 years ago.

Anton Cruz Carro ^club

The descendants of the Macedonian troops of Alexander the Great. It's possible. You are very attractive with the colorful clothes of this remote civilization.

2 years ago.

Leo W ^club

Very impressive and beautiful national costumes. It suits you well too.

2 years ago.

Amelia ^club

An emancipated group of people who have the most amazing dress sense. I love the head gear. I think you would have won the contest as far as dressing up is concerned, Diana. ;-))

2 years ago.

Roger Bennion ^club

An excellent series of photos, Diana. Good to read they stand up to pressure and wear the lovely brightly coloured traditional clothes. You look most elegant. A perfect choice, Diana.

2 years ago.

Ulrich John ^club

Very nice impressions, Diana !

2 years ago.

Nicole Merdrignac ^club

Superbes et très interessants . Bon week-end. Nicole .

18 months ago.

aNNa schramm ^club

Hello Diana,
I just saw a great documentary on TV about the women of the Kalash, about their childhood, schooling, training, traditions and their life in the community.
What was interesting to me was the time of menstruation, that during this time they live away from the family, together with other women, in a specially built house with a garden, magnificent and beautiful... and that births also take place there.
The friendliness and openness of the girls were fascinating.
The clothes are so wonderfully colorfully embroidered.
In order to document and preserve the culture of the Kalasha, a written language based on the Latin alphabet was recently developed.

5 weeks ago.

Diana Australis ^club

Hello Anna. Thank you. It is a most interesting, open and friendly community. The women and girls are marvellous, and the culture is amazing. I have been there on 2 occasions. It is very remote and the access is terrifying. This has been a good thing in many ways as it has helped preserve this very unique ancient culture. They are a very small ethnic group, totalling about 7000 people, many of whom do not live any longer in the traditional isolated valleys, which border onto Afghanistan. Of those that do, many have been converted to Islam. This is really sad, as it is the hard line variety, so parts of some of the tiny villages have women in the Afghan burqa, not in traditional bright embroidered clothing. It is under terrible pressure from Islam.
There are schools, and the kids all go. It is lovely to watch the girls in their embroidered dresses playing football and cricket! I fear that the future will not be kind to this culture. And that is so very sad.
Have a lovely weekend…Diana ❤️

5 weeks ago.

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