This Remote Pakistani Village Is Nothing Like You’d Expect

[Mansoon]

Men and women’s chores are often interchangeable in Wakhi culture. Here, a mother and daughter from Hussaini village walk to their summer pastures to collect fodder for their animals.

Very nice thread. Thanks for sharing.

 

[bananarepublic]

The remote Shimshal village, with its incredible hiking territory, once saw many tourists. But after 9/11, the number of tourists to northern Pakistan dwindled.

lol the women in this picture is my aunt

@WAJsal are these wakhi folk of tajik origin?

we did originate from Tajikistan and migrated to different areas with the recent wakhi migrants being in the upper areas of ghizer district and brogal in chitral hosting afghan wakhi...

One can learn a lot from them..The community based work and it's results are brilliant. The government needs to extend powers to the lower level. Watch this video, rest of the Pakistan can certainly do much better if we transfer power to the people who are capable...

https://twitter.com/x/status/789852674116186112

https://defence.pk/threads/al-jazeera-report-on-education-in-hunza-valley.457667/

@shimshali , this threads for us bro...

@Joe Shearer ,@Kaptaan ,@Arsalan and others...


And they say women aren't allowed to get education in Pakistan...


The hell... well done mate..

HAhaha a thread dedicated to the gojali people
my mother is actually from this village Passu and from the same family (alvi)

 

[WAJsal]

lol the women in this picture is my aunt

Lol, @Levina ...
Dude, we might even be somewhat related. I have a number of relatives in Gojal, mostly in upper Hunza though. Let's wait and see.

 

[bananarepublic]

Lol, @Levina ...
Dude, we might even be somewhat related. I have a number of relatives in Gojal, mostly in upper Hunza though. Let's wait and see.

haha that may be true

here are some more pictures of passu

 

[Levina]

Lol, @Levina ...
Dude, we might even be somewhat related. I have a number of relatives in Gojal, mostly in upper Hunza though. Let's wait and see.

Seems you stumbled upon something.lol

 

[fatman17]

Passu village in the karakoram range

 

[Indus Falcon]

what is the purpose of this thread ?

Passu village in the Karakoram Range

 

[Counterpunch]

Apart from natural breathtaking beauty, the education percentage seems to be on a higher side. Without education the beauty would have meant nothing for the people who would have their generations consumed by years of feuds and blood shed as happens in North Waziristan and some other agencies.

 

[Sulman Badshah]

@fatman17 Bro I already posted the article on Tuesday .. So this is an Duplicate thread

https://defence.pk/threads/this-remote-pakistani-village-is-nothing-like-you’d-expect.457699/

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

@d1.reloaded @Taygibay @monitor @DJ_Viper @idune @T-Rex @bsruzm @long_ @HAKIKAT ....Place and people looks really nice.

 

[Kambojaric]

Great thread. Love the diversity of this country.

 

[Taygibay]

Thanks Paklove, good mate but I had read this thread already.
I always do when WAJsal tags me and sometimes when he forgets
as his cultural threads and infos are a soothing balm for the soul.

MY favourite part this time was that old couple's pic & caption.

In general tough, I'd say that trying to set up organized travel
would probably attract the most tourists. That is how most of
westerners visit China today for example.
Something like GB/Kashmir to Islamabad & from Multan down
the Indus valley to Karachi. Linear, varied but easier to protect.

The majority of folks will possibly follow once those herded sheep
come back alive and amazed.
Although, in all honesty, most folks probably want to go to Disneyland.

All the best to you and yours, Tay.

P.S. Had first snow yesterday and going to dig a foundation today;
will think of Shimsali's sunny Passu pics from the mud pit!

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

@Andrea17 ....interesting and beautiful place...

@Englishman

 

[Indus Falcon]

This village though far far away from my village but it's making me to brag over city that I'm "paindu"..

@WAJsal know where my soul belongs? Dia-Meer... that's my peak.. I have read so much about it that I could walk blindly and go there. Though I never even went away from Naran.. but still bagher dekhay I could walk to Hussain Abad and take left to Shigar and go straight to Chigori...

Gilgit is waiting for me to come and then it would take me in its lap and never let me a part..
I'm a soul of mountains .. pta nai Yahan kesay a gai...

I'd rather be a paindu, than a city dweller.

When I go to Sialkot, the sector I served in, I feel more at home, than Karachi / Islamabad. The love and warmth of the people is simply non-existent in big cities.

 

[Chauvinist]

I'd rather be a paindu, than a city dweller.

When I go to Sialkot, the sector I served in, I feel more at home, than Karachi / Islamabad. The love and warmth of the people is simply non-existent in big cities.

Seriously... here is an invisible chaos which only can be felt..
Itna koi sakoon milta Hai na ghar ja k... I often feel a permanent music is missing and that's of traffic.