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World Hazara Council testifies at UN Forum on Minority Issues

Women protest the loss of innocent lives of Hazara in Afghanistan. Source: Yahoo Images UN Forum on Minority Issues The Hazara Genocide Thank you, Chairperson. Excellencies, member states and participants – I thank the United Nations for sponsoring this important…

This is the exceptional situation of Hazara in Afghanistan.

This is the exceptional situation of Hazara in Afghanistan. By: Dr Salim Saay, Lecturer of Immersive Software Engineering(ISE) at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Afghanistan is a country where people have suffered a lot for a long time. There are…

Hazara minority facing persecution in Afghanistan and Pakistan

A human rights activist, belonging to the Hazara ethnic group, has demanded an urgent intervention by the international community to protect the minorities facing persecution in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Speaking exclusively to ANI on the sidelines of the 43rd session of…

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…

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…