Abdul Rashid Dostum; the Hazara Hizb-i Wahdat with its stronghold in the central mountainous region of the country known as Hazarajat; and the predominantly Pashtun Hizb-i Islami of Gulbuddin ...

“Our movement will continue, we will follow this until we get a result.” Non-Hazara demonstrators included Pashtun Abdul Malik, who told reporters he supported the movement “to show unity for their ...

but ethnic Pashtuns are presently thought to account for about 38 percent of the total population and constitute a large majority in southern and eastern Afghanistan. Hazaras, who are Shi'a Muslim ...