Ever since the world shifted its attention to Saddam’s Iraq, Assad’s Syria, the ongoing U.S.-Iran feud—and Canada abandoned a mission in Afghanistan in which it had invested millions and Canadians had sacrificed their lives—Afghanistan has...
By Rustam Ali Seerat and Johnny Arokiaraj P On July 23, 2016, two suicide bombers attacked protest rally organized by the Hazara community in Kabul, killing 88 people. This was the first of a series of...
by Maisam Iltaf and Bismellah Alizada April was a particularly grim month for the besieged ethnic Hazara community in the Pakistani city of Quetta. It began with the targeted killing of Nazar Hussein, a taxi driver in the city. At the end...
By NDT Pakistan Bureau Renowned Pak columnist Irfan Husain in his article “Hazara massacre” dated 5th May in a leading Pakistani daily has brought out the tragedy of Hazaras in its macabre details. No journalist in...
By Zofeen T. Ebrahim April 22 could have been a morning like any other for 40-year old Mohammad Zaman, a Shia Hazara, and father of three, who opened his car mechanic shop anywhere between 7.30 and...
by Syed Ali Shah|Dawn Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday said that the Hazara killings in Balochistan are tantamount to carnage, which is why the court took a suo motu notice of...
By Anushe Noor Faheem A hunger strike of Hazara women led by Jalila Haidar, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist who comes from the Hazara minority of Pakistan, successfully pressured the country’s army chief to speak...
by Irfan Husain I RECENTLY received an email from a reader that made me ashamed for not having written earlier about the Hazara ethnic/sectarian cleansing taking place in Balochistan. The young Hazara woman writes: “… in...
CHIEF Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has taken suo motu notice of targeted killing of members of the Hazara community in Balochistan and fixed the case for hearing on May 11 in Quetta....
A suicide bombing that killed the relatives of an Ottawa man in Afghanistan highlights the ripple effects of the ongoing persecution of ethnic Hazaras in the war-torn nation. Right, Ottawa-based Yasir Mehrzad and family at...