Pakistan's minority Hazaras living in fear

QUETTA: In the city that has become the epicentre of sectarian bloodshed in Pakistan, Shia candidates are braving death threats to make themselves heard in Saturday's election. Shias make up around a fifth of Pakistan's 180 million population but ...

ISLAMABAD: In several cities across Pakistan, political parties and candidates have faced threats and deadly attacks on the basis of political ideology. But, in Quetta, Dr Ruqayya Saeed Hashmi has battled a different kind of threat throughout her ...

On a winter evening in January, a stranger walked into a crowded pool hall strapped with explosives and detonated his suicide jacket. Moments later, neighbours and store-owners awakened by the ground-shaking blast rushed towards the ugly scene; the ...

The snooker club which was first targeted by terrorists in the January 10 attack on the Hazara Shias of Mariabad is being reconstructed, and the crater that formed on the road outside in the second more devastating blast the same day has been ...

For years Quetta in Pakistan has rarely been visited by foreign media organisations, as it is considered too dangerous. Now a World Service investigation has uncovered the reality of life for the city's persecuted Hazara Shia community in what some ...

By South Asia Intelligence Review : At least six people were killed and another 37 were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a truck carrying an estimated 80 kilograms of explosives, when he was stopped by Frontier Corps (FC) personnel at a check post near ...

9:37pm BST By QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A prominent leader of Pakistan's ethnic Hazara minority narrowly escaped a suicide attack that killed six people on Tuesday, underscoring the growing threat militants pose to secular politicians in the ...

A suicide bomber blew up his car at a check point near a Shia dominated area here late on Tuesday, killing six people and wounding more than 30, officials said. The attacker had attempted to drive his vehicle into Hazara Town, where a recent surge ...

It is spring in Kabul where one balmy day runs into the next with ease and in which laughing Hazara street urchins, plastic sandals flapping wildly, chase flyaway kites with the speed of the Olympic runners they could, in different circumstances, so ...