Bamyan, Afghanistan [ March 1 – 2, 2013 ] | A fun-filled International Ski Challenge was held in Bamyan on March 1st, 2013, attended by 30 participants: 17 from Afghanistan and the rest of the participants from USA, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, Norway, Australia, etc. On March 2nd, the Ski Challenge […]
Quetta, Pakistan [4/23/2013 ] – Coordinated string of four blasts within 90 minutes of each other in Quetta – the restive provincial capital of Balochistan province – killed 6 and left 47 injured, several reported in critical condition. Sources in Quetta believe the first three blasts were a terrorist tactic to divert the attention of […]
Eyewitness Testimonies conducted by our Hazara Sources of the Killings in Mazar Sharif, Afghanistan August 8, 1998 1 – MAZAR, HAZARA,Originally from DARYA TURKMAN Car spare parts dealer, living in Saidabad. Family living in Iran came to Pakistan through kunduz and kabul. Narrates: “On Saturday 8th August I was in the center of Mazar. We […]
Summary: [1] This report documents the massacre of civilians and other serious breaches of international humanitarian law committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan in August, 1998. The incident, which occurred in Mazar-i Sharif, a city in northern Afghanistan, represents one of the single worst examples of civilian killings in Afghanistan’s twenty-year war where At […]
Quetta, Pakistan: Terrorist attack left one Hazara critically injured on Brewery Road next to Wahdat Colony in Quetta, Pakistan. Courtesy: Awaz Nasle Nau newspaper According to Hazara sources, Mohammad Bashir Hazara s/o of Shah Wali received three bullets in the neck area from unidentified terrorists. He was rushed to the CMH hospital in Quetta cantt […]
Victim is reported to be a Hazara known as Khadim Ali (Tekedar) s/o Ali Jan, resident of Hazara town, Quetta.
Source: Herald Sun, Australia A GROUP of 14 asylum seekers has been rescued by fishermen in Indonesia after their boat sank in the Sunda Strait on its way to Australia, but at least five others are believed to have drowned. Boat sunk in the Sunda Strait about 3am AEST Believed to be carrying 73 […]
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Hazaristan (also known as Hazarajat) – the heart of the Hazara homeland that was illegally annexed into today’s Afghanistan after the genocide of Hazaras during 1890′s. The rugged and magnificent beauty is reflective of the nature of its people – the Hazaras. Photographer: Muzafar Ali
“The Afghanistan From My Perspective” Photographer: Homira Rezai