Hazara International Network: The N-Peace is a multi-country network of peace advocates in Asia seeking to advance Women, Peace & Security (WPS) issues. The N-Peace Awards were first launched in 2011 to recognize and profile...
Shahid Abdul Ali Mazari (1947 – March 1995) was a political leader of the Hezbe Wahdat during and following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mazari was an ethnic Hazara,and believed the solution to the internal divisions in Afghanistan was in...
by Melissa Kerr Chiovenda In Bamiyan, Afghanistan, locals’ discussions on Hazara history and recent oppressions faced by Hazaras would often incorporate the meanings that two Buddha statues, built in the 6th and 7th centuries and destroyed on...
By Munira Abbas Hazaras light candles for peace against sectarian attacks in Quetta on February 15, 2014. PHOTO: REUTERS QUETTA: Twenty-three-year-old Mehrin Kausar sits in front of the stove at her modest residence in Marriabad on...
by Philip Reeves Aziz Royesh (center) in the streets near the Marefat School in Kabul.Zabihullah Tamanna for NPR Aziz Royesh is a man whose life has been defined by one over-arching ambition: He says he simply...
By Frédéric Bobin Plans are afoot to restore giant Buddhist symbols destroyed by the Taliban, but experts cannot agree on best way forward. The Sasal Buddha at Bamiyan, Afghanistan, pictured before its destruction in 2001....
The Hazara Nationalism: in Music and Historical Literature By Barakat Rastgar The Hazara nationalism was a response and reaction to the Afghan Nationalism. Hazaras thought that they were not being represented well, and they were...
‘Bruce Hazara’, who recreates the poses of the martial arts legend on Facebook, has become a cult figure, appearing on al-Jazeera and across global media With his shock of black hair and calmly handsome features,...
I will run for President of Afghanistan in 2029,” says Besmellah Taban, a 26-year-old philosophy student from Ghazni currently studying for an MA in Criminology in Kazakhstan. Taban already has a slogan, ‘Boldness and Hope’,...
Designed by prominent Hazara poet and journalist Kamran Mir Hazar. Flag of Hazaristan Colors combination: Yellow, white, and blue Yellow is the Hazara root. It is from the family color of the Hazara mountains such...