Everything you need to know about Hazara: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Hazara: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Karachi, April 12 (ANI): Minority groups in Pakistan are more or less facing similar problems of persecution and discrimmination, said several experts and scholars who participated in the recent two-day South Asian conference on Religious Minorities and Human Rights that was held here.
Washington, Mar. 15 (ANI): Pakistan's religious minorities, particularly Christians and Shiite Muslims, have said their communities are feeling an increasing sense of siege, and are calling on the government to do more to protect them, following the recent attack on Christians in Lahore.
Islamabad, Feb. 25 (ANI): Handing Quetta to the army would pave the way for the arrival of international forces in the province, according to Nawabzada Lashkari Raisani, former president of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Balochistan.
Islamabad, Feb 22 (ANI): Australia has denied reports that it was introducing any programme to resettle Hazara community out of Pakistan.
Islamabad, Feb 21 (ANI): The Australian government has offered asylum on humanitarian grounds to 2,500 Hazara families of Pakistan who have been affected by terrorism.
Islamabad, Feb 20 (ANI): The Pakistani Supreme Court has raised serious questions about the competence of intelligence agencies, and added that someone must be held responsible for the failure to protect the people of Balochistan.
Geneva, Feb. 18 (Xinhua-ANI): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned suicide blast in southwestern Pakistan which killed 84 people.
Islamabad, Feb 17 (IANS) The death toll rose to 84 in the devastating suicide bombing that hit a busy market in the Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, officials said Sunday.
In a major shocking incident, at least 63 people were killed and over 180 injured in a sectarian attack in the Quetta city of Pakistan. It seems that that blast was fixed to target the minority Shia Muslims in the Quetta city of Balochistan province
Islamabad, Feb. 17 (Xinhua-ANI): At least 63 people were killed and over 180 others injured in sectarian attack, targeting the minority Shia Mulims in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Saturday evening.
Islamabad, Feb 17 (IANS) At least 63 people were killed and over 180 injured in a sectarian attack which targetted the minority Shia Muslims in the Quetta city of Pakistan's Balochistan province Saturday, Xinhua reported.
Islamabad, Feb 17 (IANS) At least 58 people were killed and 176 injured when a powerful blast hit a market area in Pakistan's Quetta city Saturday evening, Xinhua reported.
Islamabad, Feb 16 (IANS) At least 58 people were killed and over 176 others injured when a blast hit a market area in Pakistan's Quetta city Saturday evening, reported Xinhua citing local media. The toll was expected to rise further.
Islamabad, Feb 1 (IANS) The Pakistan government has failed to act against abuses by security and intelligence agencies, which allowed extremists to attack religious minorities, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
Islamabad, Feb.1 (ANI): Pakistan's government has failed to act against abuses by the security and intelligence agencies, which continued to allow extremist groups to attack religious minorities, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013.
On Jan 10, over 100 people were killed and 200 injured in a spate of bombings in Quetta that were clearly targeted against the Shia Hazara community. Just 10 days earlier, a convoy of buses carrying Shia pilgrims was targeted at Mastung. On Jan 18, a Shia legislator belonging to the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), along with his armed security guards, was assassinated. Two members of the Sunni sectarian outfit, Ahl-e-Sunnat wal Jamaat, were also killed in Karachi the same day.
Islamabad, Jan. 21 (ANI): The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), according to an editorial in a Pakistani daily, is a creation of the establishment.
Mumbai, Jan 15 (IANS) The South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) group Tuesday expressed concern over recurring incidents of sectarian violence in Pakistan which is daily seeing targeting people on the basis of their faith.
Islamabad, Jan 14 (IANS) Governor's rule was imposed in Pakistan's violence-hit Balochistan province early Monday following the recent twin bomb attacks in Quetta in which 86 people were killed. However, the Supreme Court has questioned its notification.
Islamabad, Jan. 13 (ANI): Pakistani officials are holding crisis talks with Shia protesters in Quetta, who are demanding protection after bomb blasts killed nearly 100 persons.
Islamabad, Jan 12 (ANI): Leaders of Pakistan's Shia community have publicly questioned the country's army chief General Ashfaq Kayani over security in the country after at least 102 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts.
Islamabad, Jan 12 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the killing of over I00 people, mostly from minority Shia community in a series of bomb blast.
Islamabad, Oct 28 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit various parts of Pakistan Sunday, including most of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwestern tribal region, and Punjab, Geo News reported.
Islamabad, Sept. 17 (ANI): The United Nations team visiting Quetta to look into the issue of missing persons, who met and interacted with a large number of people, including senior officials, said they have the impression that something was "seriously wrong" because of which the people are extremely worried and anxious.
New York, Sep.6 (ANI): The Pakistani government should urgently act to protect the minority Shia Muslim community in Pakistan from sectarian attacks by Sunni militant groups, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should hold accountable those responsible for ordering and participating in deadly attacks targeting Shia.
Islamabad, Sep 1 (IANS) At least nine people were killed and a dozen others injured in a wave of sectarian violence that hit Quetta city, the provincial capital of Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan Saturday, reported Xinhua, citing local media and police.
Islamabad, Aug 19 (ANI): Referring to the recent killing of Shia Muslims in the country, an editorial in a Pakistani daily has said allowing sectarian militias to carry out targeted minority killings seriously injures the writ of the state.
Islamabad, Aug 15 (IANS) Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's Independence Day eve speech is a welcome change from "the persecution complex and denial of responsibility that so often colours both the state's and citizens' discourse on militancy", a leading daily has said.
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Afghanistan may draw lessons in democracy from India to ensure participation of all ethic groups from across the embattled nation, Indian experts suggested Saturday.
Islamabad, July 13 (ANI): Referring to the recent demolition of six minarets by the police at an Ahmadi place of worship in Kharian, an editorial in a Pakistani daily has said that the incident speaks volumes about the continued official discrimination against the beleaguered community, and if the menace is not curbed now, it would only take over the entire country later.
Islamabad, July 8 (ANI): There is no dearth of law enforcers in Balochistan, yet Pakistan's largest province is seething with violence with the federal government only doing 'window dressing' to end it, an editorial has said.
Islamabad, June 21 (IANS) Students of physics at a university in Pakistan have designed a solar car and want to introduce the energy-friendly and pollution-free vehicle at the commercial level.
Islamabad, June 15 (ANI): Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government have airlifted a four-member team to Peech Bela in an effort to gather information on the alleged execution of five Kohistani women on the orders of a tribal jirga.
Islamabad, June 7 (ANI): The five Kohistani women, including an 'accomplice' who were sentenced to death by a Jirga for singing and dancing with men during a marriage ceremony are likely to be produced before the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday.
Islamabad, June 6 (ANI): Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, while hearing the suo motu notice of media reports that a Kohistan jirga had condemned four girls to death for defying tribal customs hasordered the chief secretary of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to bring the girls to the court in a helicopter.
Islamabad, May 30 (ANI): Islamabad police have arrested a cleric accused of sentencing four women to death for singing and dancing with men at a wedding in the north of Pakistan.
Islamabad, May 29 (ANI): An editorial in a Pakistan daily, referring to the death sentence given to six persons by a jirga (tribal assembly) in Kohistan district, has said Pakistan is being 're-tribalised' under the influence of growing Talibanisation.
Kohistan, May 29 (ANI): In a bid to preempt the execution of six people condemned to death for "disrespecting gender segregation customs" in a remote village of Kohistan district in Pakistan, administration officials have ordered the detention of eight tribesmen.
Kohistan, May 28 (ANI): A tribal assembly in a remote village of Pakistan's Hazara division has sentenced four women and two men to death for 'staining the honour' of their families.
Quetta, May 6 (ANI): Baloch leader Nawabzada Jamil Bugti has said that a referendum under supervision of the United Nations (UN) should be carried out in Balochistan, to ascertain whether the Baloch want to live with Pakistan or not.
Islamabad, April 26 (IANS) A suicide bomber was shot dead and two of his companions sustained bullet injuries Thursday before they could attack a bus carrying Shia pilgrims in Pakistan's Quetta city, officials said.
Quetta, Apr 14(ANI): Balochistan Governor Zulfiqar Ali Magsi has expressed fears that a civil war may break out in the restive province in the wake of an increase in targeted killings.
Islamabad, April 10 (IANS) Fans of eternal romances like "Heer Ranjha" will now be able to watch a new version on a Pakistani TV channel, which has shot a musical drama in the actual locations depicted in the love story.
Islamabad, April 10 (IANS) Six Shia Muslims were shot dead in southwest Pakistan Monday night in a sectarian attack, police said.
Kabul, Jan 29(ANI): The Taliban has tried to project itself as a more moderate force as it has vowed to forge peaceful ties with neighbouring countries and respect human rights in its recent public statements ahead of the Afghan peace talks, a report has said.
Kabul, Jan 29(ANI): The Taliban has tried to project itself as a more moderate force as it has vowed to forge peaceful ties with neighbouring countries and respect human rights in its recent public statements ahead of the Afghan peace talks, a report has said.
Kabul, Jan 13(ANI): Prominent Afghan minorities have backed possible US-brokered peace talks with the Taliban.
Islamabad, Jan 3(ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has called on the Pakistan government to declare fresh elections soon to maintain a democratic set-up in the country.
Lahore, Oct 6(ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to take immediate, direct and personal initiative to prevent the killing of members of the Hazara community in Quetta.
Abbottabad, Sept 15(ANI): An inquiry commission set up by the Pakistan Government for probing the Osama bin Laden debacle has recorded the statements of at least 30 people, including senior officials.
Quetta, Sept 1(ANI): The Balochistan Shiite Council (BSC) has demanded that Quetta, the provincial capital, be handed over to the Pakistan Army to maintain law and order there.
Kabul, June 29(ANI): A group of former warlords in Afghanistan, who helped the US topple the Taliban regime in 2001, have launched a political alliance against President Hamid Karzai's rule.
Islamabad, June 16(ANI): An alleged rape victim, whose physical abuse claims had led to a woman being paraded naked in Pakistan's Haripur city, has now denied that she is pregnant or was ever assaulted.
Rome, Mar 12 (ANI): The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has said that the 1,500-year-old historic Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, that had been destroyed by the Taliban 10 years ago, will not be reconstructed.
Islamabad, Jan 24(ANI): A major earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted parts of Pakistan on Monday, the country's meteorological department said.
Karachi, Dec 31 (ANI): A "shutter down strike" was observed in several parts of Pakistan on Friday on the call of conservative religious groups against any move to amend the blasphemy law, which human rights campaigners say encourages Islamist extremism.
Karachi, Nov 27 (ANI): Several Christian families at Saeedabad in Karachi have fled their homes while many others have sent their women to safer grounds, following threats issued by the activists of a political party after a Muslim girl eloped with a Christian boy last week.
Peshawar, Nov 15(ANI): An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale jolted Peshawar and the northwest region of the country early Monday morning.
Kabul, Nov.14 (ANI): In Herat, the tie to Iran is hard to miss. Iranian money builds roads and industrial parks, store goods are likely to be from Iran, and Iranian cash buoys new mosques and opulent homes.
Islamabad, Oct 11(ANI): An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted Islamabad and the northwest region of the country early Monday morning.
London, Sept 13 (ANI): A senior former American national security adviser, Robert Blackwill, has warned that the Taliban are "winning" and the foreign forces are "losing" in Afghanistan and added that the country should be partitioned along ethnic lines by pulling back NATO forces to deal with the problem.
New Delhi, July 26(ANI): India, along with other South Asian countries, is "shell-shocked" with recent moves by Pakistan and Afghanistan to improve their once-frosty relationship, the New York Times has reported.
Washington, July 23 (ANI): A growing number of Afghan minority leaders who once participated fully in Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's government, have expressed that his move to negotiate with the Taliban has alienated and marginalized them and feared that it might lead to civil war in the region.
London, July 16 (ANI): A man, Talib Hussein claiming to be a rogue Afghan soldier has said that he had killed three UK troops after being angered by British conduct.
New York, June 27 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's efforts to strike a deal with Taliban leaders with the help of Pakistan has not only concerned the international community, particularly the US, but has also caused a deep unease amongst the minority communities of the war torn country.
Islamabad, Apr 26(ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders have expressed their fears about some conspiracy or 'something extra-constitutional' being hatched by certain elements belonging to the Army and intelligence agencies.
Helmand (Afghanistan), Nov.18 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who will make his inauguration speech in Kabul tomorrow, is unlikely to carry out a major cull of his ministerial team, believe diplomats and observers.
Amritsar, Nov 16(ANI): To make the Indian football team's presence felt in the international arena, local coaches gathered in Punjab's Quadian town to receive training from when a section of international coaches, handling the best football teams of the world.
Kabul, Aug.13 (ANI): For the vast majority of troops at the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters, Afghanistan remains an enigma, a threatening land lying beyond the concertina wire of the base.
Peshawar, July 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Army may have been claiming that it has forced the Taliban and other extremists to retreat from the Swat Valley and that it was now safe for the displaced people to return to their homes. However, it is learnt that taking advantage of the slack security, hundreds of insurgents have sneaked into other parts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) through Dir and Buner.
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) India and Iran explored prospects of cooperation in stabilising Afghanistan and in combating terrorism Saturday, a day after US President Barack Obama unveiled a regional approach towards the violence-torn country.
Peshawar, Mar.10 (ANI): In a bid to sustain its control over the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) before the Taliban start their own Shariat courts in the Malakand division, the provincial government has hurriedly signed the proposed Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, 2009.
Quetta, Feb.9 (ANI): The Balochistan All Parties Conference (BAPC) has called for an immediate end to military operations in Balochistan and the immediate release of nearly 6000 missing persons, who they claim have been languishing in torture cells for years.
Islamabad, Nov 26 (ANI): The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has reportedly approved ten new satellite YV channels.
Peshawar, Oct 14 (ANI): Police in Mohamand Agency in FATA claimed to have arrested an American national, said to be of Afghan descent, while trying to illegally enter the Agency. He was reportedly carrying a laptop, maps and other documents.
Islamabad, Aug 18 (ANI): On an average cars worth Rs one billion are stolen every month in Pakistan, said a report of the country's Interior Ministry, and added that cars of an estimated worth of Rs 18 billion were stolen in the past 18 months.
Nikke Ghumman (Gurdaspur District) June 27, (ANI): There are several shrines in Punjab dedicated to the social causes of rural areas and promoting spiritualism. But a shrine in Gurdaspur district has gained popularity over the years for promoting football.
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