Robert Siegel talks to professor Ilija Casule of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research shows that a language spoken by about 90,000 people in a remote area of Pakistan is ...

The picturesque valleys of northern Pakistan are the cradles of many strange languages and cultures. The languages spoken here — virtually little explored just like these valleys —include Balti, Shina ...

Consider this: Out of a population of around 12.5 million in Jammu and Kashmir, there are just 350 Burushaski speakers. But the language is spoken by around 100,000 people in the Hunza, Nagar, and ...

Srinagar- In the old city's Kathi Darwaza neighborhood, an elevated plain leads to Botraj colony where community of around three hundred“Burusho” people live. Originally hailing from Hunza, Nagar and ...

Spoken by a small minority in Kashmir and in Gilgit-Baltistan, Burushaski is a rare and fascinating isolated language In Kashmir, the speakers of Burushaski are said to be the descendants of a tribal ...

KARACHI: Amongst the handful of female singers that we have here in Pakistan, there is Natasha Baig – a girl from Hunza, looking to make it big. Within a few years of being in the industry, Natasha ...

The first-ever feature film in the endangered Burushaski language, "Hun Dan: An Echo of a Dirge," was exclusively screened at the Islamabad Club cinema over the weekend, drawing an enthusiastic ...

ilgit-Baltistan has a rich legacy of traditions and culture with a huge tourism potential but folk musicians of the area are concerned about their craft and language disappearing. There have been some ...

It's like discovering a distant cousin, a really distant cousin. It's like learning that someone you had barely heard of is actually part of the family. In this case, the family is the Indo-European ...