HINDU KUSH: Lasht Wallah

A Wakhi from the village of Lasht in the Yarkhun valley. The people of upper Chitral - Yarkhun and Boroghil - are Wakhis. Taking their name from their ancestral homeland (the Wakhan, in Afghanistan), they speak the Wakhi language and are Ishmaili Moslems (followers of the Agha Khan). 

NWFP, Pakistan. 

Canon EOS 500, 50mm, Fuji Velvia