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It’s inhumane’: Hazara react after 63 killed in targeted ISIS attack

Demonstrators from Afghanistan’s Hazara minority attend a rally for community’s rights, outside the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan, in Belgium, October 5, 2016.

Nothing being done to halt Hazara genocide

Pakistan’s Hazara community, which mostly consists of Shiites and most of whom reside in the province of Balochistan, again suffered a huge blow when on Friday they were targeted again by terrorists. A bomb exploded in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, in…

US Peace Deal with the Taliban: An Ethnic Dimension

The US deal with the Taliban has had several dimensions but one dimension that is overlooked is the ethnic or tribal one. All sides involved in promoting the deal, have had an element of the ethnic contribution that facilitated or…

There Is a Crisis of Empathy in Afghanistan

On May 12, a terrorist attack targeted a maternity clinic run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in West Kabul, killing dozens of mothers and newborn children. The heinous attack brought Afghanistan’s lack of empathy for victims and the aggrieved Hazara ethnic group…

Ghori girl on her way to US Congress: Who is Zainab Mohsini?

Ghori girl on her way to US Congress In the midst of my daily scrolling of social media while looking for the latest Afghan developments, I came across a tweet from a friend who wrote that Zainab Mohsini, a first-generation…

US Peace Deal with the Taliban: An Ethnic Dimension

Akram Gizabi The US deal with the Taliban has had several dimensions but one dimension that is overlooked is the ethnic or tribal one. All sides involved in promoting the deal, have had an element of the ethnic contribution that…

They Are Thriving After Years of Persecution but Fear a Taliban Deal

KABUL, Afghanistan — Daoud Naji was a student in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif during a massacre of members of his ethnic Hazara minority in 1998. He remembers digging tunnels to hide terrified families during a Taliban killing spree that left…

Hazara people are very talented, hardworking and resilient, if the opportunity is available to them, they can succeed and thrive

Hazara people are very talented, hardworking and resilient, if the opportunity is available to them, they can succeed and thrive

I want to be a role model for Hazara people and let people of the world know who we are and how much we have suffered.

I want to be a role model for Hazara people and let people of the world know who we are and how much we have suffered

From the day I entered school, because I was one of few Hazara, I faced consistent discrimination.

Fatima, 67 When armed extremists entered her Hazara community, Fatima had to leave with only two of her children. Separated from the rest of her family, they went from house to house, living in other people’s homes out of one…