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Author name: Zubair Torwali

Local Governance, Rights and Responsibilities in Pre and Post-Islamic Northern Pakistan

Essays, Pakistan, VOL 18 No 3 /

I hail from Dardistan1, a region in northern Pakistan that forms part of the Hindu Kush-Karakoram area, known as the crossroads between South and Central Asia. The name Dardistan describes the area comprising the highest mountain ranges of Hindu Kush, Karakoram, western Himalaya and the Pamir mountains, and includes northern Pakistan, parts of Eastern Tibet […]

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Criterion Quarterly

Zubair Torwali

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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

VOL 17 NO 2 /

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

VOL 15 NO 4 /

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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Language Revitalization — A Case Study of Torwali

VOL 12 NO 4 /

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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Challenges to the linguistic diversity of North Pakistan

VOL 12 NO 1 /

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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