By Mohammad Amin Wahidi The latest reports from Turkey show that hundreds of Afghan Asylum Seekers are being homeless after the heavy earthquake in this country. The asylum seekers who are hundreds including women and children, have been complaining for the situation they are in. These asylum seekers are the people who escaped war, genocide, [...]
For Hazaras, it’s bad enough being stuck in Quetta, Pakistan, when staying home in Afghanistan is too dangerous while the Taliban targets your family or village, or when you’re becoming at risk of becoming trapped in the crossfire of the Afghanistan war against the Taliban. Things get worse if you then get targeted in Quetta. [...]
SELF-harm, suicide attempts and asylum seekers drugged up on anti-depressants have become the norm in Australian immigration detention centres, detainees say. Hazara refugee Mohammed Baig saw heartbreaking scenes during his immigration detention at the Curtin detention centre in the Kimberley, 2000km north of Perth. “The hanging, killing, cutting themself (sic), it was normal,” he told [...]
Anna Henderson The Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin is the worst in Australia, according to the Greens. They say there have been almost 100 incidents of self-harm or threatened self-harm at the centre in the last year. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has told the ABC’s Four Corners program that when she visited the centre [...]
Mujib Mashal “They ordered the passengers off the bus,” said Hassan, a 16-year-old construction worker who survived the September 19 sectarian attack on Hazaras, a minority Shia group in Pakistan’s southwest Balouchistan province. Carrying around forty passengers, mostly pilgrims going to Iran, the bus was stopped in the Mastung area, just an hour drive outside [...]
QUETTA: The advocate general submitted before a bench of the Balochistan High Court on Tuesday a report of the Crimes Investigation Department (CID) which stated that an important clue had been found in the Mastung massacre, but said that details could not be disclosed because that would affect further investigation. Twenty-nine members of the Shia [...]
WHOLESALE SALE OF HUMAN CAPTIVES The Ameer of Afghanistan has sold ten thousand Hazara captives as slaves to pay the expenses of war. Oct 1893/ The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954) Prisoners of War Sold as Slaves CALCUTTA, Oct, 19- It is stated that the Ameer of Afghanistan, has sold as slaves 10.000 persons who [...]
Hazara-Ukrainian Artist Akbar Khurasani Akbar Khurasani was born in fall 1961, in a mountain village Sangtakht, Daikundi province in Afghanistan. The Ukraine has become his second homeland. Here he found true friends and great teachers and grew as a professional artist. In 1994 he graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, the studio of People’s [...]
Tahir Shaaran has just been awarded the CAREY FOSTER PRIZE for Outstanding Postgraduate Research Physics AMOPP. Tahir’s PhD work, on theoretical strong-field and attosecond physics, was developed from 2007 to the end of 2010, under the supervision of Dr Carla Faria. Tahir studied different scattering mechanisms in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) of atoms and [...]
Photo source Story source LAHORE: Students of the University of Engineering and Technology and the National College of Arts staged a small vigil at Liberty Roundabout last night in memory of Hazaras killed recently in sectarian attacks in Quetta. The vigil was organised by Saeeda Diep, chairwoman of the Institute for Peace and Secular Studies, [...]
