HUNZA FACE VOYAGEURS

      Meher Jabeen Facebook.com/thehunzaface I recently came back from Hunza and I saw how committees and civil society people are trying their best to control spread of COVID-19 through precautionary measures like social distancing. It is because we don’t have any healthcare facilities there. During my 22 days stay in Passu, I lived in quarantine for 14 days. Doctors and committee members visited us for our screening and fi nally gave us a go ahead to meet our family members. God Forbid, if Corona spreads in the region then people won’t be taken to hospitals but will be put in quarantine with limited healthcare facilities. What about people like my father, who are diabetic and high BP patients and also with other illnesses? Moreover, majority of the people even can’t afford cost of hospitalization. Flow of tourism will bring nothing but destruction in the region. No one in the region is dying because of hunger or poverty. We have our own limited resources and we understand that durin...

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AVGARCH - BOIBAR VALLEY Duration 3 days Distance 27.4km Standard easy Season Mid-June-September Start/ Finish Jamalabad Gojal Zone and Permit open, no permit Public Transport no Summary The beautiful and rarely visited Boibar Valley is the route to Jurjur Khun-e-Sar, Tupodan, Parigar Sar and Qarũn Koh base camps, with Qarũn Pass offering exceptional views of the Hispar Muztagh. Boibar is an east-west valley whose river descends from Qarũn Koh (7164m) to the Hunza River at Morkhun 10km south of Sost. Boibar is historically significant as the original Wakhi settlement in Gojal and the old route to Shimshal, and has spectacular old-growth juniper trees. Avgarch and Boibar are also names of places in the Wakhan Corridor, suggesting the original inhabitants may have come from Wakhan. Morkhun (2743m) receives more rain than other Gojal villages, as its name suggests (mor means ‘rain’; Khun, ‘house’). At the time of research, villagers were constructing a ro...

facebook.com/thehunzaface Sufis and the spread of Islam IN the Subcontinent, the Sufis made the untiring, selfless and incessant struggle for the spread of Islam. They devoted their lives and gave up their homes to champion the cause of Islam in a miraculous way. Neither did they resort to arms nor to swords for this. It was their affection, sympathy, fraternity and unlimited philanthropist actions that won the hearts of people. The spread of Islam stems from the invasion of Muhammad Bin Qasim in the Subcontinent, but roots of Sufism can be traced to the time when the first Sufi, Muhammad Alfi, came to the Subcontinent. However, with the passage of time, many Sufis made their way here following the invasions of Muslim conquerors. They came from Central Asia and the Arabian Peninsula in order to establish an Islamic society. Sufism took shape and became an institution in the 12th and 13th century. The two great pioneers in this filed were Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani and Hazr...

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