While traveling to a village outside of Quetta, my brother Shakil came across some young Pashtun girl’s celebrating the start of the Winter holidays. 
When school gets out for the break all the girls in a village age 5-16 get together to make the laddo (doll) like the one in the picture. They basically draw a face of a doll on a white piece of cloth and then tie it to a round shape frame. Then they decorate the laddo’s (doll’s) face trying to make her as pretty as they can and put a fancy duppata on her head. One of the girls hold’s the laddo and keeps the laddo’s face covered with the duppata so that nobody can see her face until they give her some money. The girls go to different homes in the village collecting money and singing sweet songs like:
Laddo ladanga sa ghowarri (what is this pretty doll wanting)
Yaw sha shaista merra ghowari (she wants a handsome husband to get marry with her)
par asmaan tor worra ghowari (she wants black clouds in the sky)
par mzaka shna washa ghowari (and she wants green lush plants on the earth) etc..
This goes on for about a week and then the girls count up all their money and buy some food and have a party singing, eating and celebrating that school is out.
The boys also make a similar doll but it is a male doll called speen zhirrak and means the man with white beard. They too go around singing and collecting money and have a party. Sadly now that more and more Pashtuns are forced to move to big cities for economic survival many of these traditions of the rural Pashtunkwa are dying and might soon be lost.
Pashtun Culture 