Madeeha Anwar VOA News May 24, 2018 More than 3,000 members of the Hazara minority have been killed in targeted killings and terror attacks in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province since 2001, leaders of the community told the country’s Senate Thursday. The Senate’s Committee for Human Rights held a special session to hear the grievances of
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News April 30, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Members of Pakistan’s Hazara community, a minority Shi’ite sect, are on a hunger strike for a third day against the targeted killings their community has faced for years. The number of killings has recently increased, with four separate attacks in April alone. “I want to request army
Press TV April 22, 2018 Daesh Takfiri terrorist group is growing in Afghanistan as thousands of foreign troops have apparently failed to restore security 17 years after the United States and its allies invaded the country under the guise of the so-called war on terror. Daesh, which has been behind several past bombings in Kabul, claimed responsibility for a deadly
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 17, 2018 At least six civilians have been shot dead by gunmen in Afghanistan’s western Ghor Province, an Afghan official says. Iqbal Nezami, spokesman for the provincial police chief, said four other civilians were wounded after their car was fired upon near Faroz Koh, the provincial capital, early on April
Press TV March 18, 2018 An attacker has set off a grenade among a group of university students in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killing himself and wounding five students. On Sunday, the assailant, dressed in a school uniform, struck a neighborhood dominated by ethnic Hazaras, a Shia Muslim minority frequently targeted by extremist groups. Nasir Nadery, the district
Ayaz Gul VOA News / December 28, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say more than 40 people have been killed and 84 others wounded in a suicide attack on a building in Kabul that houses a Shi’ite Muslim cultural center with ties to Iran. A spokesman for Afghan Ministry of Public Health told reporters four women
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News December 5, 2017 QUETTA, PAKISTAN — Ali Haris dreamed of getting a college degree and a well-paid job. Instead, he had to quit his education after high school. Going to Balochistan University, the only public university in the area that he could afford, would require him to travel through areas unsafe for
The Hindu: The Shias, who are predominantly of the Hazara ethnic group, have historically faced persecution in Afghanistan. “Ethnic divisions have been a feature of Afghan society and politics for a long time and have been exploited by political groups,” observes Patricia Gossman, a senior Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Sectarian persecution against the Hazaras
Press TV / October 14, 2017 The Taliban militants have again captured Mirza Olnag, a town mostly populated by Shia Hazara families in northern Afghanistan, which suffered a horrific carnage by the militants as well as terrorists of the Daesh Takfiri group nearly two months ago. Local officials in the province of Sar-e-Pul said on
Press TV / August 20, 2017 An investigation team of the United Nations has confirmed that the Taliban and Daesh terrorist groups jointly massacred dozens of people, mostly Shia Hazaras, in an attack that “may amount to a war crime” in a remote northern village in Afghanistan earlier this month. Investigators of the UN Assistance