Life as One of the Most-Persecuted Ethnic Groups on the Planet
By Jeffrey Stern Imagine that you live in Afghanistan. Your ancestors have lived there for hundreds of years, but you are a minority. In fact, you are a minority two times over, because the religion you practice is different from the one most people practice, and the way you look is different from the way [...]
by Muhammad younas Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) seems to have lost from PB2 Quetta-2 seat for Balochistan assembly while Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) seems to have unofficially won. Despite being victorious in bagging Hazara Shia popular vote, HDP has technically lost the PB2 Qta-2 seat in Quetta City, Pakistan. Now let’s analyze the post election scenario [...]
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May 1, 2013| According to Hazara sources and Jang Karachi News, two Hazaras are killed and one critically wounded in a targeted attack in the SultanAbad area of Monghopir in Karachi, Pakistan. According to Jang News Karachi, two unidentified terrorists on motorcycles approached the Katarko school and knocked at the closed door. Upon opening the small [...]
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by Carly West “It is our religious duty to kill all Shias… in all of Pakistan, especially Quetta, we will continue our successful jihad against the Shia Hazara and Pakistan will become a graveyard for them.” -A letter of intent circulated by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) in 2011 Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons The Pakistani [...]
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By Gul Yousafzai (Reuters) – A prominent leader of Pakistan’s ethnic Hazara minority narrowly escaped a suicide attack that killed six people on Tuesday, underscoring the growing threat militants pose to secular politicians in the run-up to next month’s general elections. The blast in Quetta was the worst attack since a series of bombings in [...]
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By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan, April 23 (Reuters) – A prominent leader of Pakistan’s ethnic Hazara minority narrowly escaped a suicide attack that killed six people on Tuesday, underscoring the growing threat militants pose to secular politicians in the run-up to next month’s general elections. The blast in Quetta was the worst attack since a [...]
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Notorious terrorists of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba (Yazeed) and Taliban on Friday shot injured a Hazara in Quetta Balochistan ahead of General elections. The gory incident took place in Wahdat Colony Bus Stop No2 Quetta. Photo Archive, Hazara genocide in quetta …………… A Hazara, Mohammad Bashir son of Shah Wali was hit by the Saudi funded terrorists [...]
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Ben Doherty Despite the risks of the long, slow boat trip to Australia – made starkly evident by the Christmas Island disaster this week when two asylum seekers drowned – hundreds of ethnic Hazaras in Pakistan are planning the same trip. Facing what they have described as a ”systematic genocide” in Pakistan, more and more [...]
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by Muhammad Younas It was October 5, 1999 when ex-education minister Sardar Nisar Ali was ambushed by “unknown” terrorists. His driver and personal bodyguard died on the spot, he, however, was fortunate enough to have survived the attack but sustained serious bullet injuries. This was the first terrorist attempt ever to be made on a [...]
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by Qasim A Moini IN the aftermath of two savage bombings that have between them claimed nearly 200 lives and have left many more injured, an uneasy calm prevails over Quetta. Today the Frontier Corps is all over the streets of the Balochistan capital, with stringent checks at the entry and exit points of Hazara [...]
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