{"id":44191,"date":"2014-09-29T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T09:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=44191"},"modified":"2014-09-29T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T09:16:38","slug":"polo-team-chitral-visits-yasin-valley-jashn-e-faqeer-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2014\/09\/29\/polo-team-chitral-visits-yasin-valley-jashn-e-faqeer-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Polo team from Chitral visits Yasin Valley, \u201cJashn-e-Faqeer\u201d celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilgit, September 29:<\/strong> A polo team from the neighbouring Chitral district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa visited the Ghizar district of Gilgit-Baltistan to celebrate the \u201cJashn-e-Faqeer\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to reports, the polo-diplomacy visit was arranged to rebuild blood and cultural links between members of the Khusraway family, living in Chitral and Yasin Valley. The visitors from Chitral were given a warm welcome by residents of the Yasin Valley on their arrival in the Tehsil\u2019s vicinity.<\/p>\n

It is believed that a famous polo play, Faqeer Muhammad had migrated from Barenas village of Chitral to Yasin (Varshighoom) long time back. The \u201cFaqeer Festival\u201d, thus, was an occasion to celebrate the legacy of a polo player and rebuild the family links broken due to political changes in the region.<\/p>\n

The delegation form Chitral was headed by Advocate Abdul Wali Khan, a known figure of the Khusraway family.\u00a0 Chitral Heritage and Environmental Promotion Services (CHEPS), a non-governmental organization, also used the occasion to advocate its pro-environment agenda, it has been learnt.<\/p>\n

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The visitors were warmly received\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An aged man posing with the trophy of \u00a0a friendly match played during the festival\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In Gilgit-Baltistan offering traditional caps to guests is an expression of goodwill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Advocating for clean and green environment\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dance and music were central items of the festival along with Polo\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gilgit, September 29: A polo team from the neighbouring Chitral district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa visited the Ghizar district of Gilgit-Baltistan to celebrate the \u201cJashn-e-Faqeer\u201d. According to reports, the polo-diplomacy visit was arranged to rebuild blood and cultural links between members of the Khusraway family, living in Chitral and Yasin Valley. The visitors from Chitral were given …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"better_featured_image":{"id":44193,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":768,"file":"2014\/09\/DSC09788.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"DSC09788-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC09788.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"DSC09788-450x337.jpg","width":450,"height":337,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC09788.jpg?fit=450%2C337&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"DSC09788-600x450.jpg","width":600,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC09788.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1"},"150x150":{"file":"DSC09788-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC09788-150x150.jpg"},"120x85":{"file":"DSC09788-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC09788-120x85.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"DSC09788-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC09788-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":3.5,"credit":"","camera":"DSC-T90","caption":"","created_timestamp":1411830963,"copyright":"","focal_length":"6.18","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":"","orientation":1}},"post":44191,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC09788.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC09788.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44197,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44191\/revisions\/44197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}