Pakistan’s 5,000-Year-Old Boreendo Tradition Fights for Survival Master musician Faqeer Zulfiqar and cultural institutions in Sindh are training young players and craftsmen to preserve the ancient clay instrument before its specialized knowledge disappears By Arshad Mehmood / The Media Line [ISLAMABAD] Pakistan’s boreendo, an ancient terracotta wind instrument, faces an uncertain future as its remaining […]
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Pakistan’s 5,000-Year-Old Boreendo Tradition Fights for Survival
Master musician Faqeer Zulfiqar and cultural institutions in Sindh are training young players and craftsmen to preserve the ancient clay instrument before its specialized knowledge disappears
By Arshad Mehmood / The Media Line
[ISLAMABAD] Pakistan’s boreendo, an ancient terracotta wind instrument, faces an uncertain future as its remaining master practitioners work to keep the tradition alive and pass their skills to a new generation.
The spherical instrument has an ancient predecessor excavated at Mohenjo-Daro in Sindh, a heartland of the Indus Valley Civilization. One of the world’s earliest urban civilizations, it flourished along the Indus River about 5,000 years ago.