Out of fear of persecution in Afghanistan, many Hazaras decided to cross the border to Pakistan. "Life under the Taliban felt like a prison, they didn't see us as Muslim, they called us infidels.

The Taliban recently "massacred" and brutally tortured several members of the Hazara minority in Afghanistan, says human rights group Amnesty International. Witnesses have given harrowing accounts ...

KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the country has witnessed an increase in violence against the Shia and Hazara communities in the past month in the ...

Abdullah Abdullah, former chief executive and the main peace negotiator for the previous Afghan regime, is of mixed Pashtun-Tajik ethnicity but is widely considered the latter. The Hazara ...

At least 10 people were killed in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province when a gunman opened fire on Sufis participating in a weekly ...

A U.N.-appointed rights expert for Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, said he was alarmed by the spate of attacks claimed by the IS. The “appalling killings” of the Shiite Hazaras bore the ...

Previous months have seen several similar attacks. The Shia communities in Afghanistan, primarily comprising the Hazara, have been facing systematic discrimination, targeted attacks ...

The UN mission in Afghanistan said that blast targeted the ethnic Hazara community in the western Dasht-e Barchi area of Kabul. The Hazaras are one of Afghanistan’s main ethnic groups who are ...

Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal (IR Expert): It is a good development that Pakistan and other regional stakeholders have initiated a dialogue with the Taliban for the formation of an inclusive government in ...