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The Polytheistic Kalash Tribe of Pakistan
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/the-fate-the-kalasha"><H2>The Kalasha of Pakistan face threats on several fronts.</H2></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.citizensugar.com/http://www.citizensugar.com/1642099" href="http://www.citizensugar.com/http://www.citizensugar.com/1642099" style="font-size: 11px;">www.citizensugar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/the-fate-the-kalasha" href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/the-fate-the-kalasha" style="font-size: 11px;">www.globalpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/the-fate-the-kalasha"><P>NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, Pakistan — High in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, about 25 miles on harrowing dirt roads from the nearest city, Chitral, live the Kalasha people.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/the-fate-the-kalasha"><P>Though they once numbered in the tens of thousands, the Kalasha have seen their numbers dwindle over the past century. No census has been performed since 1998, but most experts put the current Kalasha population at about 3,000.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090225/the-fate-the-kalasha"><P>The polytheistic Kalasha — whose women wear vibrant-colored embroidered dresses and beaded headdresses called “susutr" — are viewed with both admiration and suspicion by the Islamic majority. As militant Islam gains hold in regions surrounding the Kalasha — most recently with Pakistan's cease-fire agreement with the Taliban in the nearby Swat Valley — the fate of Pakistan's indigenous tribes hangs in the balance.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.citizensugar.com/http://www.citizensugar.com/1642099" href="http://www.citizensugar.com/http://www.citizensugar.com/1642099" style="font-size: 11px;">www.citizensugar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.citizensugar.com/http://www.citizensugar.com/1642099"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.citizensugar.com/img/1C507850-143F-4FB5-818C-803CC3977AEA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.citizensugar.com/http://www.citizensugar.com/1642099"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.citizensugar.com/img/A4C982C7-FDB9-45F8-9036-0D3563D3A6D0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.citizensugar.com/http://www.citizensugar.com/1642099"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.citizensugar.com/img/401770A2-B16E-4101-AC5D-BF4E16EAE3B0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.citizensugar.com/http://www.citizensugar.com/1642099"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.citizensugar.com/img/9FBC0BC1-E253-4327-92F9-D863D56DDD13" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2D9A8BBF-ACFF-4A8E-9B5A-538D8A1E2406/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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