Challenges for Afghanistan in 2025 include continuing human rights violations, economic instability and food insecurity; ...

Mohammad Akbari, the Deputy Head of the Shia Ulema Council of Afghanistan said: Taliban should try to rule over the hearts of ...

The district in south-west Pakistan is almost entirely populated by the minority Hazara community, which belongs to the Shia sect of Islam. For decades they have been targeted by sectarian ...

The Hazara community is Afghanistan's third largest ethnic group. They mainly practise Shia Islam and have faced long-term discrimination and persecution in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan and ...

The tight-knit and resilient community of Hazaras are overjoyed and grateful for the search efforts to recover Hadi Nazari, ...

2 Most are Imami Shia Muslims, recognizing the leadership ... execution in May 1997 of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners by ethnic Hazara and Uzbek forces, but there was also a sectarian component ...

Funeral prayers were offered after Zuhr, following which members of the Hazara Shia community buried the bodies of 83 victims of Thursday's deadly explosions.

Previous months have seen several similar attacks. The Shia communities in Afghanistan, primarily comprising the Hazara, have been facing systematic discrimination, targeted attacks ...

Raza Jaghori from Hazara Hikers is a friend of Mr Nazari and ... The Hazaras are an ethnic group of Shia Muslims originally from central Afghanistan, but have fled repeated persecution, including ...