* Report holds government agencies, like ISI, IB, FC, police responsible for violence in province By Manzoor Qadir ISLAMABAD: Human Rights Watch, an NGO keeping a watch on gross human rights violations in Balochistan, has asked the United States to take action against the crimes taking place in the province. The crimes include extra-judicial killings, [...]
Hazara People International Network note: Author of the following story has came with a question; is massacres of the Hazaras in Pakistan a genocide? We strongly believe that yes, it is a genocide. The second article of Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide clearly says: In the present Convention, genocide [...]
Hazara People:The target killing of the Hazaras in Quetta Pakistan does not seem to be stopping. Wednesday, January 25th, three more Hazara personalities were targeted in Quetta Pakistan by extremist terrorists of “Lashkar e Jhangvi”. Mohammad Anwar, a poet, Abid Hussain a television actor and Welayat Hussain a police officer were all shot-dead at 9:00 [...]
Posted by Saleem Ali of University of Vermont (USA) By Saleem H. Ali and M. Saleem Javed The current predicament of ethnic and religious minorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a cause of grave concern, and it is essential for the international community to be aware of multiple complexities and rivalries in the region. For [...]
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 [...]
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: Target killing of the Hazaras in Pakistan is a clear example of genocide. Second article of Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide says: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
