Sabir Shah takes off – after Kabul International declines – in aircraft built from bits of rickshaw and a secondhand Toyota guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 December 2011 17.52 GMT —–They think differently now. But as a member of the Hazara ethnic minority, he thinks his triumph has not gained the deserved accolades. “[Hamid] Karzai went on [...]
LANAI VASEK AND DEBBIE GUEST From: The Australian INDONESIA has ended the search-and-rescue mission for the missing from the sunken asylum boat off Java. One survivor, 24-year-old Afghan Hazara Esmat Adine, said Australian families worried their relatives might have drowned on December 17 had flown to Indonesia to search for them. He said Afghans living [...]
Hazara people are Turkic people and descendants of the Kushans. There are also Mongol influences in less than ten percent of Hazaras. Hazara People are living in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India and central Asian countries like Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Millions of Hazara people were and are forced to leave their homeland, the country we call [...]
By Shehzad Baloch QUETTA: Representatives of the Hazara community on Saturday appealed to the federal government to help with bringing back bodies of the victims of the Indonesian boat tragedy. They also appealed to the United Nations (UN) to help with asylum for those who survived the tragedy owing to the deteriorating law and order [...]
Hazara International Network note: Hazaras are not Afghan. We do respect all ethnic groups in Afghanistan. But we the Hazaras have our own culture and history. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group currently living in south and east Afghanistan and a part of Pakistan. Hazara people are Turkic people and descendants of the Kushans. [...]
THE storm clouds that brewed over Ali Ramazani’s hand car wash business in Wagga this week were a far cry from the ones he lived under in his native Afghanistan. Ali found life dangerous as a member of the Hazara people and a Shia muslim in central Afghanistan. “Some parts of Afghanistan life is very [...]
LAHORE – The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday expressed sorrow at the death of at least 55 young men from Quetta’s Hazara community when a boat carrying around 250 people, 170 of them from Pakistan, capsized off Indonesia. In a statement, the HRCP has called upon the government to help the families [...]
Vikki Riley | Darwin, Australia Three days after the asylum seeker boat incident off the coast off Indonesia fifteen people have been spotted on a remote island beach bringing the tally of total survivors to a meagre forty seven only. Young Esmat Adine, a young Hazara man, is one of fifteen Hazaras he knows of [...]
Hazara International Network: Pakistani journalist Ahmad Rashid has recently published an article on Afghanistan titled “Afghanistan: A New Sectarian War?”on a literary website based in the United States, nybooks.com. Hazara International Network believes that the author of this article is not only ignorant about basic facts and information about Afghanistan in general but also about [...]
Vikki Riley For the first time, a Hazara has won the annual Human Rights Art Award in Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory, presented by Mrs Tessa Pauling, the wife of the Chief Administrator, representative of Queen Elizabeth here in Darwin. Chosen from a large pool of entries that included aboriginal artists and contemporary painters and [...]
