UN approached over targeted killings of Pakistani Shias

Source: The News – June 1, 2013 |   LONDON: All Parliamentary Human Rights Group in the British Parliament has submitted to the United Nations what is believed by many to be the largest application the Special Rapporteurs may have dealt with about the targeted assassinations of Shia Muslims in Pakistan.   Lord Eric Avebury, vice […]

Life as One of the Most-Persecuted Ethnic Groups on the Planet

Life as One of the Most-Persecuted Ethnic Groups on the Planet

courtesy: The Atlantic/Peter Andrews/Reuters Jeffery Stern – May 22, 2013 | You are a Hazara, and you’ve been on the run for centuries. Now you’re in Syria, and things aren’t looking up. Imagine that you live in Afghanistan. Your ancestors have lived there for hundreds of years, but you are a minority. In fact, you […]

Hazara police officer killed by his police guard

Hazara police officer killed by his police guard

Chaman/Gulistan near Quetta – May 21, 2013 | Ewaz Ali Hazara, Sub-Inspector in charge of police station Gulistan (SHO) in District Kila Abdullah, was shot and killed by his guard and police driver, Nematullah.     victim: Police officer, Ewaz Ali     Gulistan police station       Shaheed Ewaz Ali with colleagues at Police […]

Student hunger strike against discrimination at Kabul university

Student hunger strike against discrimination at Kabul university

Last Updated: May 30, 2013 – Kabul, Afghanistan – May 21, 2013 | Hundreds of Hazara students and civil activists are on hunger strike for third day in front of Afghanistan parliament asking the government to stop racial discrimination at Kabul University. courtesy: Urozgan.org     More information: Afghanistan Analysts Network [AAN] – About Discrimination and […]

Two more asylum seekers die trying to reach Australia

Two more asylum seekers die trying to reach Australia

Michael Bachelard – May 17, 2013 | Note to the reader: There are between 1.5 to 2.5 million Hazaras that live in Iran. At times it is difficult to ascertain the identity of the individuals.  Two more would-be asylum seekers have died on the ocean trying to get to Australia while their 46 shipmates survived […]

Pakistan Election 2013

Pakistan Election 2013

Election campaign of major Hazara candidates in Quetta, Pakistan – May 1, 2013 | Updated – May 12, 2013 In PB-2 seat for Provincial Assembly of Balochistan, the Election Commission of Pakistan has declared Syed Muhammad Raza (MWM) – the extreme right Shia party – a winner over the heavy Hazara favorite, Abdul Khaliq Hazara, […]

Taliban Kuchis start “annual ritual” of plundering Hazara villages in Afghanistan

Taliban Kuchis start “annual ritual” of plundering Hazara villages in Afghanistan

Afghanistan – May 10, 2013 |   Update – July 7, 2013 Three Hazaras reportedly killed in Behsood by Taliban Kuchis – July 7   Hazara sources from Afghanistan have reported the “annual ritual” of attacks by Pashtun nomads, known as Kuchis, on the Hazara inhabited regions of Afghanistan (historically known as Hazarajat or Hazaristan). In the […]