Habibullah Khan, son of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan (1880 – 1901) – the Pushtun ruler of Afghanistan that committed genocide of Hazaras in Hazarajat – addressed this letter in 1904 to the Hazaras to return back to their lands in Hazarajat (a land that is illegally annexed into today’s Afghanistan). This letter is a confession […]
Chehl Dukhtaro (the 40 girls) is the famous legendary story of the 40 Hazara daughters that committed suicide rather then handing themselves over to the forces of the Pushtun ruler of Kabul, Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, during 1890’s genocide of Hazaras in Hazarajat (current day Afghanistan). Artist: Hasan Ali Hatif The Hazaras of Uruzgan put […]
Source: Brisbane Times Despite the risks of the long, slow boat trip to Australia – made starkly evident by the Christmas Island disaster this week when two asylum seekers drowned – hundreds of ethnic Hazaras in Pakistan are planning the same trip. Facing what they have described as a ”systematic genocide” in Pakistan, more and […]
Source: The Australian IN the world of refugees there are many deserving causes, but the Hazaras of Afghanistan and western Pakistan make up a large proportion of asylum-seekers boarding leaky boats to Australia. The Hazaras are among the most educated of Afghan tribes and are a marked people, their distinctive Mongolian facial features a target […]
Source: Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Australian Govt. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) today announced the successful transfer of 20 irregular maritime arrivals to Nauru, where they will be processed. The group of mostly Pakistanis and Afghans, departed Christmas Island on March 26 on a charter aircraft, escorted by the Australian Federal Police […]
Pakistan Army’s lawyer, Raja Irshad, has told the Supreme Court of Pakistan that 49,000 Pakistanis, including 15,500 security personnel, has been killed so far in the fight against terrorism but not a single terrorist has been convicted [by the courts]. Source: BBC Urdu
Author: Stephen Shwartz Source: The Weekly Standard The Hazaras fought the Communists and have threatened to form a militia to defend themselves against LeJ in Pakistan. But their chances in organized combat now appear small. Urban Pakistan, where the refugee Hazaras are found typically, is not mountainous Afghanistan. On February 28, Syed Zaman, head […]
Courtesy: Dawn News KARACHI: Security forces achieved yet another success in the ongoing targeted operation against militants and lawbreakers in Karachi when they arrested the former chief of outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) on Sunday, DawnNews reported. Qari Abdul Hayee alias Asadullah, along with other serious crimes, was wanted for his alleged connection in the murder of […]
Source: Amnesty International, Australia Amnesty International has grave concerns with the Government’s recent move to start returning Hazara asylum seekers to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating and we are extremely fearful for their safety should the Government send these asylum seekers back,” said Alex Pagliaro, Amnesty International’s Refugee Spokesperson. “The […]
Source: Daily Times | Our unpardonable insensitivity and acute lack of courage to stand up against the sectarian monsters and Taliban demagogues is chronic and sickening When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, its society quickly disintegrated into a number of resistance groups, disjointed and disparate. While most of the Pashtun resistance regrouped in Pakistan for […]