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CHITRAL, Aug 23: No rush of domestic tourists was seen this year at the Kalash festival of ‘Uchhal’, which the local people celebrate to mark the return of their goats and other cattle from pastures at higher altitude to the lower altitude.
The three-day festival concluded here on Tuesday amid merrymaking at the pastures located on lower altitude.
“Though ‘Uchhal’ is a local festival, people from the neighbouring Muslim areas usually throng the valley to witness it. However, this year people did not turn up due to the ongoing month of Ramazan,” a Kalash youth Tash Khan told this correspondent.
Giving details, Mr Khan said that the festival was a sort of thanksgiving ceremony by the people for the dairy products they gained during the season. With the advent of summer, the Kalash people go to the pastures on higher altitude and graze their goats there and stay there for three months and during this time they prepare dairy products like cheese and ghee from the milk of goats.
He said that the dairy product was then stored in every household and consumed during the rest of the year.
Mr Khan said that when the summer season in the higher altitude area started departing, the Kalash people descended on pastures on the lower altitude and stayed for about one-and-half months there.
The three-day festival concluded here on Tuesday amid merrymaking at the pastures located on lower altitude.
“Though ‘Uchhal’ is a local festival, people from the neighbouring Muslim areas usually throng the valley to witness it. However, this year people did not turn up due to the ongoing month of Ramazan,” a Kalash youth Tash Khan told this correspondent.
Giving details, Mr Khan said that the festival was a sort of thanksgiving ceremony by the people for the dairy products they gained during the season. With the advent of summer, the Kalash people go to the pastures on higher altitude and graze their goats there and stay there for three months and during this time they prepare dairy products like cheese and ghee from the milk of goats.
He said that the dairy product was then stored in every household and consumed during the rest of the year.
Mr Khan said that when the summer season in the higher altitude area started departing, the Kalash people descended on pastures on the lower altitude and stayed for about one-and-half months there.
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