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and Hazara parties, which in early 2001 together controlled about 10 percent of Afghanistan's territory. T wo of these enclaves, the districts of Balkhob and Dar-i Suf, sustained aerial ...

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 ...

A group of Hazara Afghan refugees have found ... is especially empowering for female refugees in the Afghan community. “In their culture, women are often expected to do domestic chores ...

Mr Ghani is the first Afghan president to visit the country. But the visit has been met with mass protests from the local Hazara community, who fear he is trying to broker a deal to deport Hazara ...

The demonstrators, mostly of the Hazara ethnicity, are calling for the proposed Tutap (Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan) 500 kilovolt power transmission line to follow original ...

A member of Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority discovered the manuscript in 1997, in a cave near one of the ancient Bamiyan Buddha monuments that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 ...

Hazara Community leader, Mohammadmir, spoke to SBS Dari about how his own fundraising back in Australia had led to his brother’s torture at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year.