{"id":3147,"date":"2025-09-29T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:01:21","slug":"maureen-lines-bibi-dow-of-kalash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Lines, Who Became Bibi Dow in Kalash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Khowari<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Maureen Patricia Lines&nbsp;(23 October 1937 \u2013 17 March 2017) was born in North London. She left her home for Paris when she was just 16-year-old. In 1961 she shifted to the USA, where she worked as a journalist for around 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Lines wrote in one of her books that after her rather extended stay in America, she had decided to travel through the Muslim world and visited Istanbul, Damascus, Cairo, Khartoum and Bahrain. In 1980, Lines arrived in Pakistan and was struck not only by the unique culture of Kalash people but also by the backwardness of their area, particularly in terms of health and hygiene facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?page_id=3162\">Beyond the North-West Frontier&nbsp;by Maureen Lines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Lines came back again in 1981, after saving money from interior decoration and painting in England, and was given a two-month permit by then-deputy commissioner of Chitral, Shakil Durrani. While in Birir village, she was invited to by a local woman, Taqdira, to stay at her home. An incident during that stay, however, altered her life forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI heard a cry for help, and ran to the scene to discover a young girl bleeding from her head after a tree branch struck her head,\u201d Lines said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2.png\" alt=\"Maureen Lines with Taqdeera (left), a Kalash whom she considered her 'mother', circa 1980\" class=\"wp-image-3149\" style=\"width:592px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2.png 958w, https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-80x59.png 80w, https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-768x569.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maureen Lines (right) with Taqdira (left), a Kalash whom she considered her &#8216;mother&#8217;, circa 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She had basic first-aid training and could not treat the girl but she washed the wound, and the girl luckily recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Lines then went to New York and received two years of training as an emergency medical technician in 1984 and returned to Kalash Valley. \u201cI had four puppies, a rucksack of medicines, a plastic bag and went door to door, village to village, treating sick people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In 1990, she returned to Pakistan and remained in the area as a travelling doctor and aid worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?p=2857\">5 August 2002: Spanish Yeti Hunter, Jordi Magraner, Killed in Kalash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I sold my house in London and completely moved to Pakistan. This is where by work is, my adopted 60-member family in Kalash and most of all my heart is,&#8221; she told the BBC in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Fluent in both the Kalashi and Chitrali languages, Lines was very close to the people of Kalash, who called her \u2018Bibi Dow\u2019. Lines was happy with this epithet as she believed the local people could not pronounce her name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maureen-lines-kalash-chitral-khowari.jpg\" alt=\"Maureen Lines, Bibi Dow of Kalash\" class=\"wp-image-3153\" style=\"width:405px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maureen-lines-kalash-chitral-khowari.jpg 800w, https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maureen-lines-kalash-chitral-khowari-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maureen-lines-kalash-chitral-khowari-80x48.jpg 80w, https:\/\/khowari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maureen-lines-kalash-chitral-khowari-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maureen Lines, Picture: <em>Dawn<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As a social worker, the British woman worked to provide proper hygiene system in the area and helped in building toilets and pipes of fresh water for them. She also helped in setting up stoves in the local residences to help cope with eyes and lung diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She also set up the Kalash Environmental Protection Society in 1993. In 1995, she started up the British charity, the Hindu Kush Conservation Association along with the then British High Commissioner to Pakistan Sir Nicholas Barrington and the World Pheasant Association President Keith Howman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Lines, who was granted the citizenship of Pakistan 2004, was awarded the prestigious Tamgha-e-Imtiaz for her services to the people of Kalash in 2007. However, on the pretext of security, police personnel took Lines away from her home, in Birir village of Kalash Valley in 2012, and whisked her to a rundown Governor cottage in Chitral town. The Taliban are after her, she was told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?p=2256\">Global Pandemics and Chitral<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from being a social worker, she was also a prolific writer &nbsp;who penned several books on the Kalash culture and Hindu Kush region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">These include<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?page_id=3162\">Beyond the North-West Frontier: Travels in the Hindu Kush and Karakorams<\/a>, Journey through Jalalabad, The Kalasha people of North-Western Pakistan<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Last Eden<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Through her articles published in leading English newspapers, she highlighted the issues of people of Kalash, the infringements on the greenery of the province and protection of heritage sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She died 18<sup>th<\/sup> of March 2017 in Peshawar and was buried at the Gora Qabristan for the Christian community in Peshawar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Posted on 29 September 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khowari Maureen Patricia Lines&nbsp;(23 October 1937 \u2013 17 March 2017) was born in North London&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,6,202,132],"tags":[407,204,405,406],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chitral","category-culture-society","category-history","category-kalash","category-profile","tag-environmentalist","tag-kalash","tag-maureen-lines","tag-social-worker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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