Hazaras' strong showing is concerning to majority Pashtuns – many of whom couldn't get to the polls because of insecurity – and casts doubt on how fair the election was.

Culturally and historically, most ethnic groups, including the Pashtuns, the largest tribe, see the Hazaras as “outsiders,” the descendants of the invading armies.

More girls passed the entrance exam for the country’s top-rung universities from Bamian and Daykondi in 2008 than from 10 mainly Pashtun provinces combined. The Hazaras’ emphasis on educating ...

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — Along rutted streets in newly revitalized neighborhoods hang green, red, yellow and black banners commemorating Imam Hussein, the prophet Muhammad’s ...

The Taliban’s belief in Pashtun supremacy in Afghanistan and their disdain for practitioners of Shi’a Islam, whom they consider apostates, places Hazaras at critical risk of future ethnically ...

The fighting is tinged by ethnic tensions as many Taliban leaders and cadres are ethnic Pashtuns. Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, comprising nearly half of the country’s ...

One warlord who is still prominent in Kabul, Abdul Rasool Sayyaf, led a Pashtun militia that massacred Hazara civilians during a ferocious 1993 battle with Hazara militias in Kabul’s mainly ...

The Taliban are predominantly Pashtun. The vast majority of Hazaras are also Shiite Muslims, reviled as heretics by Sunni Muslim extremists such as the Taliban. For many years, ...

Ethnic tensions between Hazaras and Pashtuns, the largest community in Afghanistan, date back centuries. Although there is no census, Shi'a are believed to make up around 15 percent of Afghanistan ...

When a second explosion leveled the market on Feb. 16, Hazara leaders began to talk of self-protection and raising a security force of their own. "Very soon we will have our own people at the ...

The 33-member cabinet, which the Taliban have described as ‘inclusive’, comprises predominantly Pashtun members, including three individuals of Tajik and Uzbek heritage. However, it is noteworthy that ...