DAN OAKES July 31, 2010 AWAZ Ali opens his mouth to reveal two rows of broken teeth. ”The Taliban did this when they came to our valley,” he says, with an incongruous smile. The 40-year-old potato farmer tells The Age that if the fundamentalists regain any measure of power, they will return to Bamiyan province [...]
Sen. Fritz Hollings Former South Carolina Senator Posted: July 29, 2010 02:23 PM At last! The best excuse for the mistaken “war” in Afghanistan is “nation building.” Rick Stengel, editor of Time, finally identified nation building as the strategy or goal this morning on Morning Joe. Defending Time‘s cover article of the wonderful rights given [...]
Hazara girls paint during a painting course in Kabul, 01 October 2007. During the Taliban regime many of the arts such as music, photography and painting, specially for girls and women, were banned as they were believed by Taliban leaders to be against Islam. Copyright: Getty Images
This picture shows inside the empty seat of the Buddha, which was destroyed by the Taliban, in Bamiyan on July 29, 2010. Bamiyan, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Kabul, stands in a deep green and lush valley stretching 100 kilometres through central Afghanistan, on the former Silk Road that once linked China with [...]
Liaquat Ali, LONDON, July 29th, 2010: Hazara International Forum of Great Britain sent out a letter to Secretary General, UN condemning recent plundering and looting of Pashtun Nomads, afflicting unprovoked Hazaras in Central Afghanistan. The letter portrayed grave concerns of HIF and Hazara community, UK over the pre-planned attacks of Pashtun Nomads at Hazara Land [...]
Leon T. Hadar, July 28, 2010 04:15 PM As the members of War Party and its political-media echo chamber continue recycling their spin on WeakiLeaks-Afghanistan, Washington — as opposed to the Rest of the Country — remains chained to the conventional wisdom (CW) that, well, even if things in Afghanistan are not working as planned [...]
Top 5 Hazaragi folk singers, Ustad Safdar Tawakuli, Ali Daryab, Mir Chaman Sultani, Homayon Laali, Wahab Nasiri and Sayed Anwar Azad are performing on opening ceremony of 2nd Bamyan Silk Road Festival 2010. On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2nd Bamyan Silk Road Festival kick started in Bamyan football ground. Around 2,000 people, both men and [...]
Meena Asadi Hazara is a 2010 SAF Games medalist and former National Champion. Pakistan brought 19 gold medals. Meena Hazara is a national champion. Source: Hazara News Pakistan
Taliban explode Bamiyan Buddha due to ethnic Hazaras can not fold to argue that residents are native to Afghanistan. Die Zerstörung der Buddha in Bamiyan wegen rassistische Gründe. Die Zerstörung der Buddha in Bamiyan wegen rassistische Gründe from tamaki_studio on Vimeo. Die Buddha von Bamiyan wurde wegen rassistische Gründe zerstört, damit die Hazara Bevolkerungen nicht [...]
Photo by Amnesty Norway A family of Hazara asylum-seekers from Afghanistan (father, mother, three-year old daughter and the mother’s brother) had been arrested for attempting to leave the country with false documents in December 2008. The criminal court gave the adults a suspended six-month sentence, a €3,000 fine, and ordered their judicial deportation. The family [...]
