Hazara people are one of the largest ethnic minority groups within Afghanistan mainly residing in Hazarajat (or Hazaristan) with Bamyan being one of the largest cities in Hazarajat. Two business ...

Labour candidate Rohullah Yakobi, who is challenging Tory MP Mark Pritchard for The Wrekin, was powerless to stop his baby brother starving to death in his native Afghanistan. Thirty years on, he ...

Contributed by George KerrThe Taliban’s belief in Pashtun supremacy in Afghanistan and their disdain for practitioners of Shi’a Islam, whom they consider apostates, places Hazaras at critical ...

There are multiple theories about their origin. Some anthropologists trace their ancestry to Turko Mongols, while some believe they were originally Buddhists who lived in Hazarajat, the territory ...

On Aug. 5, eight people were killed and 18 injured in a blast in Kabul claimed by the Islamic State, according to Reuters.

Saskatoon, with its nature and its people, helps my wounds heal. I dare to dream about my people in Hazarajat. May they too someday know the love, peace and freedom my new life here has given me.

A pair of bomb blasts at a boys’ school in Kabul left at least six people dead on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks on the minority Shiite Hazara community in Afghanistan.

A history of atrocities against the Hazaras As one of the largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan, the Hazara people have endured various forms of oppression from Pashtun rulers and governments ...

Originally departing from the mountainous Hazarajat area in central Afghanistan, the Hazara left for Pakistan’s Quetta as it has long been regarded as a safe haven for the Hazara people compared ...

They are Shia Muslims, claim descent from the Mongols, and for much of Afghanistan’s history have occupied a semi-autonomous region in central Afghanistan called Hazarajat. Making up 10-20% of ...