The Hazara, a minority group that is targeted by Islamic extremists in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province, often live inside sealed-off communities for their own safety. 1 An entrance to Pakistan’s ...

The Hazara are a Shia people who originally come from Afghanistan, but wars and executions pushed them into Iran and Pakistan beginning in the late 19th century. For more than a decade, the Hazara ...

A hunger strike of Hazara women led by Jalila Haidar, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist who comes from the Hazara minority of Pakistan, successfully pressured the country's army chief to ...

For Pakistan’s beleaguered Shia Hazara community, Saturday’s suicide bombing was a gruesome déjà vu. The bomber targeted a busy shopping area in Hazara Town in Balochistan’s provincial capital of ...

"Those targeting the Hazara community will suffer twice as much, and the state and Pakistan army will provide security to the community," Bajwa assured them. Pakistan's military later issued a ...

QUETTA, Pakistan -- A deadly attack in southwest Pakistan has added to the heavy toll suffered by a small Shi'ite minority amid a broad sectarian conflict. The October 4 attack, carried out against a ...

One Hazara rose to the job of commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Pakistan, Gen. Musa Khan, who probably foresaw the fate of the Hazara in Pakistan and left a will to get himself buried in Mazar ...

What sort of reaction would you expect from the international community if more than a thousand people belonging to a particular ethnic group were targeted for violent attacks within the span of a few ...

April was a particularly grim month for the besieged ethnic Hazara community in the Pakistani city of Quetta. It began with the targeted killing of Nazar Hussein, a taxi driver in the city. At the end ...

The group of around 300 Shia Hazara pilgrims who had been visiting religious shrines in neighboring Iran never knew what hit them. Within minutes after they arrived at the Pakistani border town of ...

The Hazara, a minority group that is targeted by Islamic extremists in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province, often live inside sealed-off communities for their own safety. 1 An entrance to Pakistan’s ...