In Quetta, fear still stalks the Hazara

Imagine a sight of a devastated father, sitting cross-legged on the road, in the dark and cold night, staring at the coffin of his only son, unmindful of the rain droplets mixing with copious tear...

Pakistani candidate for national assembly for Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) party Ruquiya Hashmi, waves to supporters during an election campaign meeting in Quetta. Hazara Shia community members and supporters of Ruquiya Hashmi, carrying ...

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 ...

When a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with 300-kg of explosives in a Hazara Shia neighbourhood in this southwestern Pakistani city in January, Sher Mohammed and his friends spent the next few hours collecting body parts.

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 ...

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 ...

Since the release of Ishaq, attacks on Shias have intensified, especially in Balochistan, which witnesses many terrorist incidents I had a fairly normal childhood like many Pakistani children. I was born in a generation that was regularly taught ...