Channel 4 News, Updated on 28 January 2010 Last spring President Karzai backed a law governing Shia family relations that effectively legalised marital rape and allowed for women to effectively be imprisoned in their homes....
Relations between religion and politics By Kawa Gharji Translated from Dari (Persian) by M. Amin Wahidi The discussion of legitimacy and acceptance is one of the most interesting discussions in Islam history and Islamic point...
Tom Coghlan in Kabul, April 16, 2009 A group of Afghan women who braved an enraged mob yesterday to protest against an “abhorrent” new Afghan law had to be rescued by police from a hail...
* Hazara MPA says killings of minorities motivated by religion * Says Quetta has been communally harmonious until recently By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: Hazara tribesmen in Balochistan, numbering around 300,000, are currently living under...
By: Yar, July 17 2008, The history of hazara’s genocide started in the period of Abdullrahman Khan at the end of 19 century, when Britannia thrones and dethrones Afghan kings from British India. Britannia always...
Derek Barry/ Roma-based journalist, blogger and researcher at QUT. In a new study, the London-based Minority Rights Group (MRG) have identified those groups most targeted for killing by virtue of their religious or ethnic heritage....
It has been reported that on June 9th 2007 a large group of Kuchies attacked and burned down villages, schools, and farms in Central Afghanistan where Hazara Shia Muslims live. The large groups of Kuchies...
Published in Salsaal on Wednesday the 14. of February 07 My two brothers were killed at Afshar. One of my brothers was killed beside the shrine of Shahid Ismael Balkhi as the result of shooting...
By Patrick Cockburn, Monday, 8 April 2002 United Nations investigators found evidence yesterday of three mass graves near the central Afghan city of Bamiyan, believed to contain ethnic Hazaras killed by the Taliban in their...
By JAMES RUPERT, Newsday YAKAOLANG, Afghanistan — The white-bearded elders of Bedmushkin tremble when they recall Jan 8. That was the day that Taliban fighters came to the village after having won a difficult battle...