Intangible heritage lives in sound — songs, instruments, dialects, prayers. The Boreendo joined UNESCO's Urgent Safeguarding List in 2025: an ancient dying instrument with no national platform to hear it. This map begins the job of bringing every voice home.
An ancient terracotta wind instrument of Sindh whose melodies, knowledge and skills are dying with its last players — inscribed by UNESCO on the Urgent Safeguarding List in 2025.
Persian New Year celebrated across Pakistan's western regions and by communities nationwide — inscribed 2024 (multinational).
The traditional practice of keeping, training and flying falcons — passed mentor-to-apprentice for generations in northern Pakistan.
Traditional meteorological and astronomical practice of the Kalash people of Chitral — observing sun, moon and stars against the local topography to mark seasons. Inscribed 2018.
Coming with the Lok Virsa partnership: digitizing the national folk-music archive. Until then — record your own family's folk memory →