People from the Shiite Hazara community chant slogans beside caskets of coal mine workers who were killed by unknown gunmen near the Machh coal field, during a sit-in protest, in Quetta, Pakistan, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

On the Ashura [the 10 days observing martyrdom of Imam Hussain] of 2003 and 2004, the Shia Hazara community of Quetta was struck twice, yielding 53 dead. Pakistan blamed India but the Shia were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past decade many Hazaras are being singled out and murdered cold-bloodedly in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. They are subjected to an ethnic onslaught by extremist Islamist and ...

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 ...

Several hundred members of the Hazara ethnic group have staged a protest in southwestern Pakistan against the murder of a six-year-old girl. The crowd staged a sit-in on November 8 outside the office ...