21 Facts About Hazaras

Hazaras are an ethnic group native to and primarily residing in the Hazaristan region in central Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan.

Hazaras are considered to be a persecuted group in Afghanistan, and their persecution has occurred various times across previous decades.

However, due to genetic and linguistic analysis, Hazaras are certainly a racially mixed group with Hazaras having varying degrees of Mongolic, Turkic and Iranic ancestry.

The participation of the Mongols in the ethnogenesis of the Hazaras is evidenced by linguistic data, historical sources, data on toponymy, as well as works on population genetics.

Begona Martinez-Cruz in 2011, together with other scientists, as a result of a study of autosomal microsatellite loci, concluded that the Hazaras are closely related to the Turkic populations of Central Asia rather than Mongols and East Asians or Indo-Iranians.

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Some Hazaras have the haplogroup R1a1a-M17, E1b1b1-M35, L-M20 and H-M69, which are common in Tajiks, Pashtuns as well as Indian populations.

Hazaras launched several campaigns in Hazarajat due to resistance from the Hazara in which his forces committed atrocities.

Those Hazaras living in the northern Hindu Kush went to Tsarist Russia, mostly in the southern cities of Russia, and some of them went to Iran.

One of the most famous political and military figures of these Hazaras is Muhammad Musa Khan, who held the general's military rank in Pakistani system.

In 1998, six thousand Hazaras were killed in the north; the intention was ethnic cleansing of Hazaras.

Hazaras have played a significant role in the creation of Pakistan.

Hazaras had been the first from his native province of Balochistan to obtain a Bar-at-Law degree and had helped set up the All-India Muslim League in Balochistan.

Some other notable Hazaras include Sultan Ali Keshtmand, Daoud Naji, Abdul Wahed Sarabi, Ghulam Ali Wahdat, Akram Yari, Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan, Ghulam Husain Naseri, Abbas Noyan, Abbas Ibrahim Zada, Ramazan Bashardost, Ahmad Shah Ramazan, Ahmad Behzad, Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili, Fahim Hashimy, Maryam Monsef, Fatima Payman and more.

An academic at Melbourne's La Trobe University said that "The Hazaras are very fearful that the Taliban will likely be reinstating the policies of the 1990s" despite Taliban reassurances that they will not revert to the bad old ways of the 1990s.

Hazaras was the Minister for Women and Gender Equality in Canada.

Some sources claim that Hazaras are about 20 to 30 percent of the total population of Afghanistan.

Many of these were Hazaras, including women and small children who could not swim.

Many Hazaras engaged in varieties of sports, including football, volleyball, wrestling, martial arts, boxing, karate, taekwondo, judo, wushu, Jujitsu, Cricket, Tennis and more.

Hazaras then won a second Olympic medal for Afghanistan in the London 2012 games.

Hazaras participated in several international championships since 2005 and achieved victories against Australia, the Philippines and Mongolia.

Hazaras represented Pakistan three times at the Olympics and won a gold medal at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing.