"Ashar an asset of Pakhtoon society "
Ashar is generally called a ritual of working jointly without any compensation for others, but now this word is mostly attributed to grass harvesting.A special number of people participating in Ashar is not determined rather, the number depends on the nature of the work.But when Ashar is arranged for grass harvesting, this number may consist of 20 to 200 people or even more.On the day when Ashar is intended to be arranged, before one or two days it is proclaimed and informed in every house of the village". Similarly, it is proclaimed at every house.People arrive in a fixed place(RAKH) at Ashar's call, people even bring their own tools(LOOR ,SWAN etc) needed to perform work.
Ashar is organized in September and October in the upper areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa like GADOON, Buner, Shangla , Torghar , and Mansehr. Before the arrival of frozen winter, the grass is harvested from the mountains to hoard grass for livestock. The major reason for this harvesting is that when the mountains are covered with ice sheets, the stored grass is the only thing that can be fed to animals.Ashar is generally called a ritual of working jointly without any compensation for others, but now this word is mostly attributed to grass harvesting.Due to Ashar, where many days work is done in just a day, this ritual also provides an opportunity for mutual consensus and unification, brotherhood, and to share the pain of each other.
There is a share of almost every villagers on mountains and the part of the mountain where villagers harvest grass is called "Barkha".