By Roberta Gately, RN, BA Like so many others, I’ve wanted to write a novel for as long as I can remember. At the age of seven, I scrawled out a short story series about three young children for my mother. Though I barely remember their adventures, I do remember my mother’s smile as she [...]
AAP Two asylum seekers are believed to have tried to take their own life at the Perth Immigration Detention Centre. The Immigration Department confirmed that early on Monday morning two male detainees had threatened self-harm but had been stopped by centre staff. “Neither detainees were injured and both are receiving appropriate medical checks as precautions,” [...]
Hazara People note: We do respect all ethnic groups, but Hazara People are not Afghan. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group in Afghanistan. Afghan MP rejects asylum seeker deportation deal by tvnportal
The Australian | Sarah Elks, North Queensland correspondent THE family of a young Afghan asylum-seeker who apparently committed suicide at the Scherger detention centre in far north Queensland is fighting Australian authorities over the repatriation of his remains. Nearly one month after the death of Meqdad Hussain, a 20-year-old Hazara man, his family is deeply [...]
Hazara people: Same as Afghanistan, dozens of Hazara people were targeted and killed by Pashtun Taliban in Pakistan. A new report released by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says dozens of Hazara people were killed in Pakistan in 2010. 118 people were killed and 40 injured in 117 targeted killings in Balochistan. They included 29 [...]
BY: Muzafar Ali The places in above and following photos are shot from Panjao, Waras (Bamyan Province) and Ashtarlai (Daikundi Province) districts on winter 2009 and spring 2010. In most part of Hazaristan (Central Afghanistan) winter season starts on late October and end on early March. When spring starts, snow still exists on the mountains. [...]
Gentle isn’t perhaps the adjective that would immediately spring to mind when you think of the Afghan people. However with so much bad news coming out of Afghanistan, I felt compelled to write about an encounter I’ve just had with a sweet, gentle and hospitable group of people. They’re called Hazaras and they live in [...]
Hazara People note: We do respect all ethnic groups, but Hazara People are not Afghan. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group in Afghanistan. Journey from fear to a life of freedom BY: BRIANNA MCSHANE A SMILE from a Tasmanian woman called Susan changed Najeeba Wazefadost’s life when she arrived in Tasmania in 2001. Ms [...]
Pashtun Taliban have been blocked the roads in Ghazni province where Hazara people live. Local people and drivers say that Taliban have distributed a letter threatened people to do not pass Jaghori- Gharabagh road.
By Jay Fletcher The suicide of Mohammed Asif Atay in Curtin detention centre on March 28 was “tragic news” to Prime Minister Julia Gillard. “I’m sure all Australians hearing this news would feel very sorry,” she said on March 29. He was the sixth known refugee to die in detention in the past seven months [...]
