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== Demographics ==
The village is predominantly inhabited by [[Wakhi people]], who migrated in waves from [[Wakhan]] between 1870 and 1948 to different areas of northern Pakistan.<ref name=Wakhi/> They speak [[Wakhi language]] and are homogeneously [[Isma'ilism|Ismaili]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2018-01-walking-grass/ |magazine=[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]] |title=Walking Grass |date=January 2, 2018 |access-date=January 2, 2018 |first=Paul |last=Salopek |quote=The inhabitants of this austere landscape, many of them ethnic Wakhi farmers, have learned to trap this explosive blessing through the filter of grass.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benz |first1=Andreas |title=Education and Development in the Karakorum: Educational Expansion and Its Impacts in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan |journal=Erdkunde |date=2013 |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=123–136 |doi=10.3112/erdkunde.2013.02.02 |jstor=23595393 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23595393 |access-date=13 July 2024 |language=en |issn=0014-0015|url-access=subscription }}</ref>