After over 48 hours since it started, the sit-in on Quetta’s Alamdar Road staged by hundreds of members from the Hazara Shia community continues on Sunday. The demonstrators, while refusing to bury their loved ones,...
Ahmad Shuja The sufferings of a small ethno-sectarian minority community in Pakistan have brought Pakistanis of all stripes in active unity against increasing incidents of sectarian terrorism. Thousands of people are protesting across Pakistan in...
-Photo by Saleem Javed QUETTA: Hazara Democratic Party’s president Abdul Khaliq Hazara went on hunger strike for three days on Saturday in protest against the killing of members of the community in Thursday’s bomb blasts...
The worst violence occurred in the southwestern city of Quetta, where two explosions a few minutes apart in the evening ripped through a snooker hall in a neighborhood dominated by ethnic Hazara Shiites, killing at...
In Kabul, 2nd Lt. Sourya Saleh, 20, left, and 2nd Lt. Masooma Hussaini are Hazara air force helicopter pilots who were trained in the United States. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / December 28,...
Amnesty International says Australia’s reported cooperation with Pakistan’s intelligence agencies to stop Hazara asylum seekers leaving the country is “questionable and sordid”. An investigation by journalist Aubrey Belford quotes Pakistani officials confirming that Australian Federal...
By Aubrey Belford Once a haven for refugees from Afghanistan, the Pakistani city of Quetta has turned into a deathtrap. Many see escape to Australia as their only hope. For years, the Pakistani city of...
Together in Europe for democracy, against racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazism ! Saturday, December 15, 2012 Ensemble en Europe pour la démocratie, contre le racisme, l’antisémitisme et le néo-Nazisme ! European antiracist silent March ! Athens,...
Saleem Javed The second and third weeks of November saw an attack on the Shia Hazaras every other day.Conference on “Hazara genocide in Pakistan” at the House of Commons in London. – Photo courtesy author...