Tha Duneshng Han Michlar
Burushaski Mushaira 2026
Celebrating Burushaski Poetry, Culture, Music & Digital Heritage
Event Highlights
- Burushaski Mushaira featuring talented poets
- Traditional musical performances
- Bonfire and dinner
- Tea and refreshments
- Get-together of Yasin professionals, students, and families
Digicells International, in collaboration with GurenOsay, proudly presents Tha Duneshng Han Michlar - Burushaski Mushaira 2026, a special cultural and literary evening in Islamabad bringing together Burushaski poets, artists, musicians, language enthusiasts, and members of the community.
This event is more than a Mushaira. It is part of an initiative by Digicells International, a technology company, focused on the preservation, digitalization, documentation, and representation of Burushaski through modern digital technologies. The initiative aims to create and develop digital resources that can help make Burushaski increasingly accessible within modern language technologies, including the development of systems intended to support machine translation between Burushaski and multiple other languages.
Burushaski Poetry Evening
The Mushaira will feature poetry and literary performances by:
- Asif Ali Ashraf
- Burusho Duduk
- Ali Ahmad Jank
- Nazir Juda
- Fakhar Fanni
- Wajahat Sultan
- Imran Khan Nasrand
- Azmat Khan
- Sardar Ali Khamosh
- Ashfaq Ali Shamoon
- Qurban Ali
The gathering will provide a platform for Burushaski poets to present their work, connect with audiences, and contribute to the documentation and representation of Burushaski literature.
Special Sithar Performance
The evening will also feature a Special Sithar Performance by Shamsi Noreen, accompanied by her father Shah Usman and her brother Israr Karim Israr.
This special performance brings traditional musical expression together with an evening dedicated to Burushaski poetry and cultural heritage.
From Cultural Gathering to Digital Language Preservation
One of the important objectives behind this initiative is to connect cultural preservation with technology. Burushaski has a rich oral and literary tradition, but much of its linguistic material remains outside the digital language resources commonly available for major world languages.
As part of the initiative, Digicells International is working on the technical digitalization of Burushaski to support its development toward machine-translatable language resources across multiple languages. The work involves building and organizing digital linguistic data that can contribute to the development, testing, and improvement of language technology models.
Why this Mushaira matters
A poetry gathering such as Tha Duneshng Han Michlar can generate valuable authentic Burushaski language material. With appropriate documentation and consent, the poetry, language expressions, vocabulary, sentence structures, literary forms, and other linguistic material presented through such events can contribute to a growing Burushaski language dataset.
This event is therefore also intended to provide Burushaski language data that can be used in the testing and training stages of the language technology model currently under development.
Poetry becomes data.
Data becomes digital resources.
Digital resources can help build language technology.
And technology can help give an endangered language a stronger digital presence.
Event Details
- Status
- Confirmed
- Event
- Tha Duneshng Han Michlar - Burushaski Mushaira 2026
- Date
- Time
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (PKT)
- Venue
- Towcheen Restaurant, G-9/1 Markaz, Islamabad
- Ticket
- PKR 1,500 per person
- Includes
- Bonfire, dinner, tea & refreshments
- Seats
- Limited
Book Your Ticket
Secure your seat for PKR 1,500 per person. Ticket bookings are made via JazzCash and confirmed on WhatsApp.
Booking Steps
- Send PKR 1,500 through JazzCash to 0327-3344778.
- After payment, WhatsApp the payment receipt to 0327-3344778 .
- Your receipt will be used to confirm your ticket booking. You will receive a confirmation message on WhatsApp.
Seats are limited — early booking is recommended. For any ticket-related queries, message us on WhatsApp at 0327-3344778.
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Collaboration, Featuring & Participation
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Be Part of the Celebration
Join us for an evening where Burushaski poetry, traditional music, culture, community, and technology come together. Whether you are a Burushaski speaker, poet, writer, researcher, musician, student, language enthusiast, member of the Gilgit-Baltistan community, or simply interested in Pakistan's diverse linguistic and cultural heritage, you are invited to be part of this gathering.
Come for the poetry.
Experience the music.
Celebrate the language.
Support the artists.
Contribute to its digital future.
Organized by
Digicells International
In Collaboration with
GurenOsay
An initiative for the preservation and digital representation of Burushaski through technology and digitalization.