Anisa Ajmal is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Prague.
Hard-line Muslim clerics in a conservative northwestern Pakistani village have announced a boycott of music and dance at weddings.
In a sign that efforts to roll back the autonomy of Pakistan’s provinces is snowballing into a crisis, politicians in three minority provinces in the country have criticized the recently constituted government commission tasked with dividing federal resources between Islamabad and four provinces.
For centuries members of an ancient pagan tribe celebrated their seasonal festivals with wine and dance in northwestern Pakistan's Hindu Kush valleys.
