The Hazaras not deterred by tougher immigration laws Photo archive TONY EASTLEY: More than 500 asylum seekers arrived in Australia over the weekend and in Afghanistan ethnic Hazaras have told the ABC that tougher immigration...
by Niamatullah Ibrahimi 1. Introduction In recent years, Hazara ethnic consciousness is believed to have developed sharply. The process is said to have arisen with the start of the 1978 war in Afghanistan and the...
by Melissa Chiovenda A killing in Bamyan Province highlights the difficulty that Afghanistan is having in trying to find a new societal balancing point. Despite Afghanistan’s overall troubles, things had been going relatively well in...
By Dr Saleem Javed On October 4, a Hazara public official Sikander Ali was killed and two other men were injured in an attack on their vehicle on the National Highway near Kuchlak. Days later,...
A delegation of Norwegian-Hazaras met Mrs. Marit Nybakk on October 3, 2012. The venue of the meeting was the parliament building of Norway. Mrs. Marit Nybakk is a well-known politician for the Labour Party and...
The Jury awards SIMA SAMAR (Afghanistan) “for her longstanding and courageous dedication to human rights, especially the rights of women, in one of the most complex and dangerous regions in the world”. It is the...
WHILE an Afghan asylum seeker won a last-minute court reprieve yesterday against deportation, a group of 18 Sri Lankan men detained on Christmas Island chose to return home rather than be sent to Nauru. But...
Iqbal Ahmad Oruzgani Iqbal Ahamd Urozgani is a civil engineering student at Kabul University. His hobbies are walking , biking ,taking photos, playing with kids and sharing and passing messages from Central Highlands Afghanistan to...
By: Engineer Rahmat Sharifi Mysterious! Mother: “Wake up son it is time for you to go to the library.” Me: “Ok, mother.” I woke up washed my face, brushed my teeth and got dressed in...
Last Saturday was just another day in 13-year-old Liaquat Ali’s house in Quetta. The young Hazara boy’s mother asked him to help her with some chores, but he wanted to go out. After some back...