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Zubair Torwali

The author is a senior research fellow with CRSS and the Executive Director of Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) Bahrain Swat, KP, Pakistan. His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: Malakand Division: Conflict, Floods and Response The Ignored Dardic Culture of Swat Threats and Revival of Endangered Music Land and Forest Governance in Swat The Issues of […]

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Mother Language Education: The Torwali Multilingual Education Model

by Zubair Torwali* *The author is a community activist, researcher, author, and educator based in Bahrain, Swat Pakistan. Zubair has published works in English, Urdu, and the Dardic Torwali language. He has authored and supervised a number of books in and about Torwali. His book in English, Muffled Voices, provides insight into Pakistan’s social, cultural,

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Language Revitalization — A Case Study of Torwali

by Zubair Torwali* *The author is a senior research fellow with CRSS and the Executive Director of Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi  (IBT) Bahrain Swat, KP, Pakistan. Abstract Educational planning in the indigenous minority linguistic communities needs a holistic approach wherein it is ensured that the people of the particular speech community or communities can integrate development

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Threats and Revival of Endan-gered Music – A Case of Torwali Music

by Zubair Torwali* *The author is a senior research fellow with CRSS and the Executive Director of Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) Bahrain Swat, KP, Pakistan. Torwali is a Dardic language spoken by a community of about 80,000-100,000 in the idyllic valleys of upper Swat district in north Pakistan. It is one of the Pakistan’s 28

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Education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, over the past two decades

by Zubair Torwali* * The author is a community activist, researcher, author, and educator based in Bahrain, Swat Pakistan. Zubair has published works in English, Urdu, and the Dardic Torwali language. He has authored and supervised a number of books in and about Torwali. His book in English, Muffled Voices, provides insight into Pakistan’s social,

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Challenges to the linguistic diversity of North Pakistan

Zubair Torwali* * The author is a senior research fellow with CRSS and the Executive Director of Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) Bahrain Swat, KP, Pakistan. Indigenous communities living in the mountainous terrain and valleys in northern Pakistan speak over 24 indigenous languages. Some of these languages are Khowar, Shina, Indus Kohistani, Torwali, Gawri, Palula, Kalasha,

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The Issues of linguistic Diversity in the Pakistan’s Education Policies

by Zubair Torwali *The author is a senior research fellow with CRSS and the Executive Director of Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) Bahrain Swat, KP, Pakistan. *Bengali was given the status of National Language in 1952 after long protests and language movement in the East Pakistan by students, teachers and civil society. Introduction Being an outcome

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