2 Most are Imami Shia Muslims, recognizing the leadership of ... in May 1997 of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners by ethnic Hazara and Uzbek forces, but there was also a sectarian component to the ...

Raza Jaghori from Hazara Hikers is a friend of Mr Nazari ... The Hazaras are an ethnic group of Shia Muslims originally from ...

The attack came after a relative lull in nearly a year of violence against the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority in the province.

ISIS-K, a Sunni extremist group established in 2015, has targeted Shi’ite Muslims in Afghanistan, particularly the Hazara ethnic minority. Afghanistan’s Shi’ite population constitutes around ...