Chitral “The Paradise”

Chitral “The Paradise”

Chitral is one of the mountain regions of Pakistan, lying in the extreme North. Its total area is 14800 km and 90% area is under mountains. Chitral is one of the most beautiful places on the earth. It is the place of cool minded
and peace loving people. Chitral is place where peace and tranquility prevails.

Walking in cold blowing weather, dumping you with number of protective shelf, enjoying of taking Chitrali traditional diets especially sensational stimulating tea is one of paradise assets.

It was not only our cultural impression and beauty that led me to write this article, but The beauty of Chitral lies as much in its rustic, mountainous terrain, as in its warmhearted and friendly inhabitants. Chitral forms Pakistan’s
northwestern border with Afghanistan, and is home to the precipitous mountains of the Hindkush. Tirich Mir at 7708 m and its accompanying peaks, Noshaq (7492 m), Istoro Nal (7403 m) and Saraghrar (7338 m) command respect. Alexander the Great’s troops had to
battle through the snows on their passage from Afghanistan to Pakistan, and called the Hindu Kush ‘Parapamisus’ meaning mountains over which no eagle can fly.

This is the natural beauty of this land, when we look to the top of these mountains which are fully cover with whitish paint of ice, but in the middle of these mountains we found a hot spring almost 67? popular with the name of
Garamchashma , really shows the greatness of Allah and beauty of Chitral. If we just look from Broghol to lower Chitral, we will found climatic variation, traditional culture, medicinal plants, running spring, beautiful land, terrenes, rivers, cold blowing
breeze, beautiful lakes, divert culture more than that peace loving people does. These qualities give Chitral a unique feature entirely different from rest of Pakistan.  

Its culture is unique. There are two racial groups in Chitral. One is Kalash who are reported to be the descendants of Alexander the Great. The Kalash are now only about three thousand people and live in the southwest valleys of
Chitral. They have their unique culture with three main festivals a year and a major source of tourist attraction. They live peacefully with their neighbors who outnumber them. Their ways of life are quite interesting. The other group living with their Kalash
neighbors in a state of ideal friendship and harmony is called Kho who are reputed for their culture and peace loving nature and integrity.

Chitral has everything beauty and all natural resources we should work together to utilize all these resources for the betterment of Chitrali and Pakistani people.

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Posted by Sonia Bashir on Nov 22 2011. Filed under Society. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry