Hazaras form a majority of the population in the central highland region of Afghanistan known as Hazarajat, and are a significant minority in the cities of Kabul and Mazar-i Sharif. 2 Most are ...

Kabul (AsiaNews) – The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) has opened its second mission in Afghanistan, in Bamyan, in the extremely poor region of Hazarajat.

Yet they are cutting a small, revolutionary swath through the deeply traditional and long-isolated region that is the homeland of Afghanistan's Hazara population, an ethnic minority that ...

One recent political development appears likely to benefit the most deprived part of Hazarajat, a region of barren hills and remote villages south of Bamian that U.N. reports call the "hunger belt." ...

The rich and complex history of the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan, where the Buddhas of Bamiyan once stood. When the Valley of Bamiyan came under Islamic rule in the 11th century BC the giant ...

Until recently, the Hazarajat -- the central highland home of Afghanistan's impoverished Hazara community -- had no institutions of higher education. But a self-help effort to create the first ...

In fact, the imposed famine on the Hazarajat was particularly brutal and generally unreported in the media in the West. Wardak is about half Pashtun, with most of the rest (somewhere around 40%, ...

As in all of Afghanistan, however, Nawid believes that the Hazaras are united in two thoughts: (1) the region is dominated by Iranian money and politicians who are eager to divide the country; and ...

Very quickly, a blog to help the victims of the attack was set up. A relatively recent blog-based clearing house for Hazara issues, Hazarajat Times, picked up a story that would grow in significance: ...