Hazara

Pakistan market suicide bombing: 18 killed, 48 injured in attack aimed at minority Hazaras at Quetta

Eight of the dead belong to the Hazara community, Quetta city police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema said, adding that one paramilitary official from a squad deployed to guard the community at the market was also killed.

UN slams Pakistan over repeated terrorist attacks on schools, police abuse of Afghan refugees

The United Nations (UN) is “concerned” about continuing terrorist attacks on educational institutions and the military’s use of schools, especially in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan, a report of the UN’s review of Pakistan’s social, cultural and economic rights says.

Taliban insurgents abduct, kill 20 Afghan civilians in Ghor

Taliban insurgents have killed at least 20 Afghan civilians after abducting them in the remote central province of Ghor the previous day, officials said Wednesday.

Kabul attack: Death toll touches 80, 231 injured as twin blasts rip through Shiite mass protest

An explosion ripped through an area in Kabul on Saturday where hundreds of minority Shiite Hazaras had gathered to protest over a key power transmission line, police said.

Afghan capital Kabul locked down for large demonstration

Main roads across the Afghan capital Kabul have been blocked by the authorities as thousands of ethnic Hazaras marched on Saturday through the city demanding a planned power line be rerouted through their poverty-stricken province.

Gunmen kidnap 30 members of Hazara community in southern Afghanistan

Gunmen in southern Afghanistan kidnapped 30 members of the Hazara ethnic community, authorities said Tuesday.