Sunday, March 27, 2011

Kalasha: Happiest people in Pakistan?

Gul Sayed, 25, sports a grin a mile wide as she hugs me, a lone foreigner in her home.

She is a member of the Kalasha, a peace-loving pagan tribe living in the remote villages that lie between Northern Pakistan?s Chitral Valley and the Afghan border. 

She?s dressed in a black robe embroidered with rainbow threads, a beaded headdress adorned with cowrie shells and colorful necklaces. 

Rumour has it the blue-eyed, fair-skinned Kalasha are the descendants of the armies of Alexander the Great. But unlike their putative bellicose ancestors, the country?s smallest minority group -- numbering around 3,000 -- prefers to make love, not war. 

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Source: http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/life/kalasha-happiest-people-pakistan-261067

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