Zubair Torwali

Zubair Torwali

  • Language and ethnic identity

    The picture shows a girl reading Urdu from a blackboard. — AFP/File The relationship between language and ethnic identity has long occupied a...

  • Language and ethnic identity

    Language and ethnic identity

    The picture shows a girl reading Urdu from a blackboard. — AFP/FileThe relationship between language and ethnic identity has long occupied a...

  • Let there be more districts?

    The image shows Ushu village of Kalam Valley in Swat. — Facebook@swat.pk/FileThe Swat Valley, nestled in the mountains of northern Pakistan, has...

  • Let there be more districts?

    Let there be more districts?

    The image shows Ushu village of Kalam Valley in Swat. — Facebook@swat.pk/FileThe Swat Valley, nestled in the mountains of northern Pakistan, has...

  • What is ‘Kohistani’?

    What is ‘Kohistani’?

    This classification was used to distinguish these indigenous groups from others after their conversion to Islam

  • Navigating the third sector

    Navigating the third sector

    Trump’s policies have been labeled short-sighted, exacerbating difficulties for most vulnerable populations

  • Modernity, tradition, survival

    Modernity, tradition, survival

    Changes are influenced by modernisation, state policies, external cultural influences and environmental challenges

  • The hydro heritage of Swat

    The hydro heritage of Swat

    Joyous gatherings, poetic expressions, and cultural rituals that revolved around water are now echoes of distant past

  • Saving River Swat

    Saving River Swat

    River originates from glaciers of Gabral, Mahodand, Mankiyal, Shetangoot and Daral

  • Madyan and the people of Swat

    Madyan and the people of Swat

    Protesters set fire to the Madyan Police Station and the vehicles parked there on June 20, 2024. — Geo News ScreengrabIn 1992, when Sufi Muhammad...

  • Language of war and peace

    Language of war and peace

    A language is not just a collection of phonetics, phonology, words, syntax and grammar

  • Why did ANP lose popularity?

    Why did ANP lose popularity?

    Though many people didn't expect ANP to be a major victor in province they did not anticipate ANP losing elections with such a high margin

  • How a language dies

    How a language dies

    Representational image. — UnsplashA language dies when nobody speaks it anymore. Why a language dies is a pertinent question asked by linguists...

  • How to respect the mountains

    As temperatures in the densely populated urban cities increase, many people from these areas wish to spend a few days away from the hustle and...

  • Whose language is it anyway?

    Recently, a person from the village that one of the writers of this piece comes from approached him about applying to the Prime Minister’s Youth...

  • The downside of unplanned tourism

    In the Dardic Belt and Gujari areas of Swat, people did not have access to modernity and modernization some 50 or 60 years ago.The area was closed...

  • What endangers a language?

    Students of the Institute of Management Sciences, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa organized a two-day literary and academic event called Peshawar Literary...

  • Travesty of justice

    The traditional council, or ‘jirga’, is known by different names in different languages in Pakistan – ‘faislo’ in Sindh and...

  • How to ignore a language

    Form No 2 of the upcoming Digital Census 2023 includes basic questions about gender, age, religion, marital life, nationality and ‘mother...

  • Honour in Ghairatabad

    Get together a group of young girls and boys, sit with them, and shed your cloak of narcissism for a while. Establish a long association with them,...