By Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: Faith leaders, human rights defenders and Parliamentarians have called on the government of Pakistan to take stringent steps to bring to justice the perpetrators of heinous rape crime against Sahar...
By Mohammad Zafar Living a life without a male member is next to impossible for a woman in a male dominated society like Balochistan. However, when it comes to the Hazara women, the tale of...
By Muhammad Younas It was early morning of on 28th of October 2014. Sahar’s mother was busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen while her father, Sakhi, was getting himself ready to go to work. He...
Reported by Stephanie March CHRIS UHLMANN: The second Hazara man to be deported by the Australian Government against his will says he fears for his life in Kabul. The Immigration Department rejected the man’s claim...
By Jordan Humphreys Occasionally the government begrudgingly informs us about its “removals”. Beneath this sanitised word lies the horror of deportations. The Edmund Rice Centre, a Sydney-based social research and advocacy organisation, recently reported on...
By Raza Rumi The attack on the Hazara community in Quetta last month, which left 10 dead and many injured, comes amidst the recent spate of violence against an intensely vulnerable and ghettoised community. Pakistan’s...
The mother of a six-year-old girl who was strangled to death last month has appealed to the authorities to publicly execute her daughter’s murderers so that the criminals are taught a sobering lesson. “I appeal...
By: Kawa gharji It is nearly 12 years since the Taliban regime has fallen and a new government was established with the support of international communities accompanied by unprecedented support of people of Afghanistan. Over...
QUETTA: The parents of a six-year-old girl, whose tortured body was found dumped in a trashcan on October 28, are still waiting for justice. Bakhtawar, the mother of Sahar Batool, who was from the Hazara...
By Kawa Gharji Translated: Ishaq Mohammadi “Norway police usually search for asylum seekers over the weekends. The reason police search and arrest asylum seekers over the weekends is because asylum seekers’ lawyers are not in...