SRINAGAR, India – Along a bustling road set amid a series of new McMansions in Kashmir's main city, a half-dozen extended families are camped in an open field in shelters of burlap and plastic. To an ...

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s tourism and archaeology department on Tuesday organised a webinar on ‘Bakarwals’ to throw light on different aspects of the culture, traditions and ethnicity of ...

For Naseema, a member of the Gujjar tribal community in Kashmir, adolescence was not always pleasant. There were days every month when she was ordered to stop certain activities she loved and told not ...

Tucked away in the rugged Himalayan Pir Panjal mountain range of Indian-administered Kashmir, my home terrain, the Bakarwal nomads, guardians of an ancient pastoral tradition, stand at a crossroads ...

Shepherd Crafts provides means of steady income for the Gujjar and Bakarwal communities The river Lidder flows through verdant fir mountains and alpine meadows near Pahalgam in Kashmir, India. In the ...

Even as the summer drew to an end in the last week of July, the snow had not completely melted in the pastures of Deosai in northern Pakistan. This was a problem for Abdul Rauf and 400 other Bakarwal ...

A shepherd from the Bakarwal community of Jammu and Kashmir with her livestock. | Amitkanwar919, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The morning sun had barely risen over the Pir Panjal mountain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this May 9, 2018, photo, a Kashmiri nomadic Bakarwal boy leads the heard of sheep and goats near Dubgan, 70 kilometers (43 ...

In this May 9, 2018, photo, a Kashmiri nomadic Bakarwal boy leads the heard of sheep and goats near Dubgan, 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. After centuries of ...