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Category Archives: Ethnic Issues

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Indonesia’s Afghan Refugees Question Impact of President Ghani’s Visit

6th April, 2017 · admin

Krithika Varagur VOA News April 6, 2017 JAKARTA — Afghan president Ashraf Ghani’s historic two-day visit to Indonesia was largely focused on economic ties between the young democracies. Indonesian president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo promised to build a large hospital and Islamic center in Afghanistan in addition to signing several agreements for further cooperation. The leaders also

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Posted in Economic News, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Hazaras, Indonesia-Afghanistan Relations, Pashtuns |
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Afghanistan’s President Ashaf Ghani in Australia.The Hazara Dilemma

5th April, 2017 · admin

Global Research: Australian government officials are at it again, and the visit by President Ashaf Ghani to Canberra on Sunday piqued interest amongst various members of the Afghan community concerned about the next innovation in cruelty practiced by Canberra. Click here to read more (external link). Related Turnbull pledges Afghanistan support but forced return of asylum

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Ethnic Issues | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Descrimination, Hazaras |
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Public To Decide About Fate Of Durand Line

5th April, 2017 · admin

Tolo News: The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shekib Mustaghni, said on Wednesday at a press conference that any decision on the Durand Line will need to be made by the people living on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan de facto border.  He said the fate of the Durand Line was not brought up

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Political News | Tags: Durand Line |
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Afghan Lawmakers Call for Stoning of Fellow Parliamentarian

4th April, 2017 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News April 3, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Lawmakers in Afghanistan have called for stoning to death of a fellow parliament member for stating the country’s long border with Pakistan is an international boundary. Afghan commentators and newspaper editorials have also slammed the parliament member for speaking against “the national interest,” with some demanding Abdul

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Political News | Tags: Abdul Latif Pedram, Durand Line, Parliament, Pashtuns, stoning, Tajiks |
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Afghans stage anti-Kabul rally in Canberra

3rd April, 2017 · admin · 1 Comment

Press TV April 3, 2017 Hundreds of Afghans in Australia have staged a rally in protest at Kabul’s discriminatory policies, as Afghanistan’s president is visiting the capital Canberra. The peaceful protesters gathered outside the Government House on Monday, calling on Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s government to end discrimination against the Hazara ethnic minority and to refuse accepting

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Posted in Australia-Afghanistan Relations, Ethnic Issues, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Descrimination, Hazaras |
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U.S. Report Highlights Violence, Ethnic Tensions In Afghanistan

7th March, 2017 · admin

Tolo News: Endemic violence in Afghanistan continues to be fueled by serious societal divisions, The United States Department of State has said in its report on Human Rights Practices for 2016. The report sets out what is termed “most significant human rights problems in Afghanistan” as the main cause of the widespread violence in the country.

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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New Afghan ID Cards To Include Both Nationality, Ethnicity

2nd March, 2017 · admin · 1 Comment

Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani Thursday has approved the amended draft of the Census Law to authorize the printing of the word “Afghan” on the electronic ID cards as the “nationality and ethnicity” of the holder of the card, the Presidential Palace said in a statement. The long-debated matter was considered as a ‘potential hurdle’ for

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Society |
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Gunmen Kill 13 Miners In Northern Afghanistan

6th January, 2017 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 6, 2017 An Afghan official says unidentified gunmen have killed at least seven coal miners in northern Afghanistan, revising the death toll which was earlier put at 13. Faiz Mohammad Amiri, the district governor of Tala wa Barfak, in Baghlan Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that the miners were

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, ISIS/DAESH, Security | Tags: Baghlan, Hazaras, Shiites |
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Afghans protest against Daesh brutality against Shias

3rd January, 2017 · admin

Press TV January 3, 2017 People in western Afghanistan have staged a massive protest against growing sectarian attacks on Shia Muslims by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists. About 2,000 demonstrators, holding pictures of Shia Muslims killed in recent terrorist attacks, marched on the governor’s office in the city of Herat on Tuesday. The protesters chanted slogans

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, ISIS/DAESH, Security | Tags: Hazaras, Herat, Nangarhar, Shiites |
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Hazara Refugees Push Forward With Frozen Life in Indonesia

28th November, 2016 · admin

Krithika Varagur VOA News November 28, 2016 CISARUA, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA — The notion of refugee life evokes many associations: destitution, duress, scarcity. But the overwhelming fact of many refugees’s daily lives is boredom. Like the Hazara refugees of West Java, whose days bleed into months into years. They can’t work, enroll in school, or travel;

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Posted in Afghan Sports News, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Futsal, Hazaras |
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