Shujaul Mulk Khan

Ecosystem, tradition and religion in the Pashtun culture

Shujaul Mulk Khan is an Assistant Professor in Ecology at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad.

Guest of the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Shujaul Mulk Khan tell us is research field and how that begins in his region, on the Himalaya mountain in a Pashtun village.

In this long interview we discover the close relationship between the ecosystem, the culture of a population and biodiversity. Shujaul Mulk Khan explaining us the role of the Islamic religion within the Pashtun culture and introduces us to various aspects of the traditions of a population living in the northwest region of Pakistan. There is a delicate balance established over the centuries between the culture, traditions and the local ecosystem, balance today endangered by the influence of capitalist culture.

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