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📸The Living Archive

Pakistan's national ICH inventory died in 2019 with 3 entries. This is its rebirth as citizen science: record a craft, a song, an elder's memory, a monument's state — our review team (and soon Lok Virsa validators) publish the best into the national record. Every entry is a grant deliverable.

6
published entries
1
in review now
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Sain Bakhsh, Cholistan

Camel-man's account of the desert caravan routes between Derawar Fort and Rahim Yar Khan before the metaled road.

✓ reviewed · · Oct 2026
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Gul Zaman, Hunza

Three wedding songs in Burushaski — a language isolate spoken nowhere else on earth — recorded at a village wedding.

✓ reviewed · · Oct 2026
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Masthan Qawwal, Lahore

Handwritten bandish (compositions) of a family qawwal group that has played at Data Darbar for 120 years.

✓ reviewed · · Oct 2026
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Zulekha, Tharparkar

Every ralli quilt tells a story — this pattern set from Umerkot has been passed mother-to-daughter for nine generations.

✓ reviewed · · Oct 2026
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Hakeem Khan, Chitral

Village elder describing how his grandfather predicted seasons by shadow-lines on the peaks — the UNESCO-listed Suri Jagek practice in his own words.

✓ reviewed · · Oct 2026
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Aisha Bibi, Multan

Seventh-generation potter making the famous Multani blue pottery with natural cobalt dye. The wheel has not stopped since the 1800s.

✓ reviewed · · Oct 2026