For you, a thousand times over.’ These words from Khaled Hosseini’s acclaimed novel The Kite Runner became symbolic of the friendship between Amir, a privileged Pashtun, and his servant Hassan, a ...

NSW Police have launched investigations into election-related violence, harassment, and vandalism-including poo smears on ...

This book is for anyone who wants to understand a piece of history and how that history lingers in the lives of people who ...

No U.S. administration should legitimize the Taliban by seeking its assistance for re-engagement in Afghanistan.

The rise of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a civil rights platform challenging military excesses, reflects the growing ...

Ever since U.S., coalition and Afghan Northern Alliance forces pushed the Taliban out of Afghanistan, remote Bamiyan—dominated by ethnic Hazaras who defied the Pashtun-dominated Taliban regime ...

Ethnic oppression against Afghanistan’s non-Pashtun groups has intensified substantially ... Hundreds of thousands of Afghan soldiers—particularly Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks—fought ...

McCurry didn't have time to get his subjects' names, but he did establish that they were from the Hazara community, a Shi'a Muslim minority often at odds with Afghanistan's dominant Pashtuns ...

“I don’t support any rhetoric that all Pashtun and Hazara are terrorists … any of that inflammatory language. “It disturbs me to think that people think that I’m supporting violence of any kind. I ...