Aziza Zafari I weep for my people! I weep because they are like a voice crying in the wilderness for recognition and justice and no-one seems to be listening. I weep because those who claim to stand for basic human rights for every person have turned a blind eye and blocked their ears to the [...]
Hazara people across the globe! Hazara Democratic Party and Hazara People International Network request the Hazaras from all walks of life to stage massive protest rallies against the brutal and systematic killings of Hazara people in Pakistan and the continuation of discrimination, barbaric attacks and invasion of Hazara’s land by the Kochis in Afghanistan. We [...]
By Ishaq Mohammadi Toppling of Taliban Government has now reached to more one decade, but it needs decades to recover ethnic and sectarian wounds inflicted by Taliban towards innocent people of Afghanistan in general and destruction of two giant standing statues of Buddha in particular, which were historical and cultural heritage of the country in [...]
by Ali Zadah , Vikki Riley, Kabul Press The first few pages of Katib’s opus Siraj al Tawarikh, or Lamp of History, published around 1902/3 With the beginning of Amir Abdul Raman Khan’s rule in Afghanistan in 1880 the social and political persecution of Hazaras began. Brutal attacks began on Hazarajat , immediately transforming a [...]
By Salman Heydari The Hazara of Afghanistan: Cultural Exhibit & Lecture was developed to increase awareness of the rich history and cultural heritage of the Hazara people from Afghanistan, who now live throughout the world. The Hazara ethnic group, the third largest in Afghanistan, is a culture that has survived despite genocide and decades of [...]
By Feroz Abuzar History: History has ever been the most complicated and still is when you specially try to draw a general definition of as the most accepted and understandable one for all. Because history does not go to one single compass like physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and …history refers to too many changeable aspects [...]
TRANSLATION OF THE PASHTO TEXT : ISHAQ MOHAMMADI/ ART PHOTO BY NAJIBULLAH MUSAFER Mullah Omar’s Farman to Taliban – A copy of this document (written in Pushto) was secured from Taliban’s Dept of Interior Ministry after US bombing in late 2001.The document is an order/policy by Mullah Omar to the Taliban commanders. Mullah Omar Farman [...]
By Dr Saleem Javed A bill in the US Congress that backs the Baloch “right of self-determination” days after a congressional hearing on Balochistan, and the emotionally charged reactions to these developments in Pakistan, both ignore the persecution of the Hazara community in the violence-hit province. Analysts say the community is of no strategic or [...]
Updated: 02.02.2012 REUTERS PICTURES Protesters mostly supports of Pashtun Taliban, shout anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in Kabul February 24, 2012. Twelve people were killed on Friday in the bloodiest day yet in protests that have raged across Afghanistan over the desecration of copies of the Muslim holy book at a NATO military base with [...]
