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In July
of 2001 I traveled to the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan
to visit a small group of animists called the Kalash. Living in
the Eastern Hindu Kush Range near the Afghan border and now numbering
just under three thousand, the Kalash represent one of the last
non-Islamic minorities in Pakistan. Considered infidels by the Muslim
majority, the Kalash have had to fight to keep their culture intact
and their beautiful mountain valleys from being logged. Residing
near the border of Afghanistan, the Kalash have witnessed hundreds
of Afghan Refugees flee the civil war in Afghanistan and the repressive
government of the Taliban. Even prior to September 11th there were
almost two million Afghan Refugees in Pakistan. |
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