Do our politicians have any idea why asylum seekers pack up their lives and flee? Hadi Zaher on the increasingly violent situation facing Hazaras in Pakistan By Hadi Zaher An old Persian saying goes like this: as the lamb worries about its life, the butcher worries about the fat and meat. As the federal Government [...]
Aziza Zafari On 21st of September 2011, at 5:33 PM Julia Weikfield a radio-broadcaster began to talk about the purpose of the “Words @ the Wall” event at Treasures wall state library of South Australia. Julia introduced Molly Murn an Australian Poet and Elyas Alavi an Afghanistani Poet and a painter. She also talked about [...]
MEDIA RELEASE Refugee Action Coalition Sydney CURTIN ASYLUM SEEKERS HOLD PROTEST AT HAZARA KILLINGS IN QUETTA. NEITHER PAKISTAN NOR AFGHNAISTAN IS SAFE FOR HAZARAS Yesterday (Thursday 21 September), at 3.30pm, more than 400 mostly Hazara asylum seekers staged a peaceful protest near the administration building inside Curtin detention centre. According to a statement released by [...]
By Najam Sethi Here is a tally of killings and establishment policies that tell a terrifying tale of state failure. Over 500 Shia Hazaras have been killed in Balochistan by Sunni extremists in the recent past. Last Tuesday, a bus was waylaid near Quetta by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists who mowed down 26 Shia passengers in cold [...]
by B.Raman (September 25, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Twenty-six Shia pilgrims belonging to the Hazara community were dragged out of a bus in which they were travelling at Mastung in Balochistan on September 20,2011, lined up and shot dead by unidentified gunmen suspected to be belonging to the anti-Shia Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), which is close to [...]
Country and City: Swedan, Stockholm There will be protest against target killing of hazara in quetta pakistan, stockholm Sweden every one is requested to please be there with their FAMILY and record your protest. Time and Venues of protest; medborgeplatsen stockholm saturday 1st october kl 4:30pm to 6:00 pm. Pakistan embassy stadion station 3rd october [...]
QUETTA: At least three people were killed and two injured in a shooting incident near Sariab Road in Quetta on Friday. The Express Tribune correspondent Shehzad Baloch said that those killed were coal miners belonging to the Hazara Shia community. According to a senior police officer, a passenger van was on its way to the [...]
