Master thesis Kamran Mir Hazar This master thesis investigates the importance and challenges of digital identity construction for the stateless nations, takes the qualitative case study as the research approach, and examines the case of the Hazara of Hazaristan to give a novel and in-depth insight into the issue.First, it looks into background literature to […]

Kamran Mir Hazar Talk at the Asian Congress of the World Poetry Movement Dear Fellow Poets in Asia and Across the Globe, Dear Coordinators of the World Poetry Movement, and Directors of International Poetry FestivalsFirst, I would like to pay my respect to all Hazara victims of ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and discrimination. […]

By Kamran Mir Hazar Published on poetryinternationalblog.org (May 14th, 2010) Kabul 2007; I remember when I was invited accidently to a literary meeting in Afghanistan’s presidential palace. A man working for the president cultural adviser phoned me to say that President Hamid Karzai had invited more than 200 poets and they would be happy for me […]

By Kamran Mir Hazar and Vikki Riley | Darwin, Australia Published in Kabul Press(Tuesday 31 January 2012) A new documentary made by Hazara director Ali Mohammadi, seen by Kabul Press shows a hitherto previously unseen dimension to the spectre of Pashtun Kuch   is crimes against Hazaras in Behsood and Daimirdad district of Maidan province in […]

By Robert Maier Published in Kabul Press (Thursday 11 March 2010) Since the beginning of the Karzai regime in 2002, twenty Afghan journalists have been murdered, and more than 200 violent physical attacks against journalists have been logged. Scores have fled Afghanistan after receiving threats against them and their families. Journalists have been sentenced to […]

By Kamran Mir Hazar Published in Guardian (Saturday 13 June 2009) Since the fall of the Taliban, the international community has been playing a game of double-standards in Afghanistan. George Bush, for example, repeatedly talked of spreading democracy in Afghanistan but not once did he raise his voice against those accused of human rights violations. […]

By Kamran Mir Hazar Published in (Sunday 4 March 2012) The Afghan Ulama Council has boldly proclaimed a resolution that clearly continues to violate the right’s of women. “Ulama” is the plural form of the Arabic word “Alem” meaning “scholar”, but by no means have these men used the distinguished thoughts of a scholar to […]

By Kamran Mir Hazar and Robert Maier Published in Kabul Press (Sunday 3 May 2009) Several sources have revealed to KabulPress that Asadullah Khalid, former governor of Kandahar is involved in widespread misuse and abuse of government funds. These sources say that despite being discharged from his position in Ghazni many years ago and recently from […]

By Kamran Mir Hazar and Robert Maier Published in Kabul Press (Saturday 21 June 2008) This article is based on a letter signed by Mohammad Amin Farhang, former Minister of the Economy and current Minister of Commerce to an official of the World Bank in Kabul showing Afghan economic advisor, Adib Farhadi, as director Interim Afghanistan […]

The Taliban persecute Hazaras, but this is ignored by the US as it doesn’t fit the script fed to them by their Afghan sycophants. By Kamran Mir Hazar Published in Guardian (Monday 19 July 2010) I remember it was 2006 when a former Kabul police chief, General Ali Shah Paktiawal, told local media that the police had […]