Childhood experience of Taliban

Anis Rezai

“Because We Are Hazara”: When Being a Hazara Never Ceases to Be a Crime in Afghanistan Listen to Audio version of this article on Bolaq’s YouTube Channel The Taliban’s return to power has made Afghanistan a place where all kinds of violence and brutality are not only committed with widespread impunity but are also highly […]

Denying Hazara Female Students: the bringers of change and modernity in Afghanistan

photographer-Hekmatullah Basseri

Photographer: Hekmatullah Basseri After closing female businesses and women-led organizations, the Taliban recently banned women from leaving their homes unless necessary, always accompanied by a male chaperon. They are banned from viewing public sports, or walking in public parks. After sending girls back home from schools, and forbidding women to get an education, the Taliban […]

How Western documentary-makers are unwittingly supporting the divisive political agendas of Afghanistan’s Pashtun elite

Zarifa Ghafari

On 22nd August 2022, Netflix revealed the release date for a “Clinton-produced” documentary called ‘In Her Hands’ directed by Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen. The documentary is about Zarifa Ghafari, an Afghan woman, who is presented as “Afghanistan’s first female mayor”, as claimed by HiddenLight Productions’ co-founders, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton. It is […]

Afghanistan: The Situation of Hazaras During One Year of Taliban Rule

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A year past since the reemergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan. It has been a disastrous year for the people of Afghanistan especially the women, the Hazaras, as well as the religious minorities. A totalitarian regime has taken power in the country where every sign of progress is undermined and the achievements of the last […]

Hazara Genocide in Afghanistan (1892-1901)

Abdur Rahman Khan with British Officers

The Hazara nation, now living mostly in Central Afghanistan region known as Hazarajat, faced the worst genocide at the hands of Amir of Kabul, Abdul Rehman Khan (1880-1901) in the late 19th century. Hundreds of thousands of Hazaras were massacred, sold out as slaves to neighboring countries, and forced to migrate to Central Asia, Iran, […]

Afghanistan Suffering Under the Taliban

Girls Education Jaghori Ghazni Hazaristan

High school female students in Afghanistan were left with tears after the Taliban kept girls schools closed, back-tracking from their earlier promise. The schools were to reopen on Wednesday, 23rd March, after the Taliban’s so-called ‘Ministry of Education’ had already made an announcement a week earlier. Nevertheless, many girl students, with unparalleled excitement and hope, […]

All-time Victim: Women of Afghanistan

Zohra, Afghanistan refugee in Pakistan

After 20 years of struggle for democracy and women’s rights in Afghanistan, the country turned to a black death hole — hundreds of thousands of Afghans trying to escape the country after the Taliban returned to power on August 15, 2021. Listen to Audio version of this article on Bolaq’s YouTube Channel Though there is […]

Hazara Genocide Remembrance and Solidarity Week: 25 September to 1st October

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In the aftermath of 2nd Anglo Afghan War (1879 – 1880) and decisive British military victory over Ayub Khan in the battle of Baba Wali just outside southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the British selected Amir Abdur Rehman as new Amir of Afghanistan, who in return not only ratified the Treaty of Gandamak but also […]