Who are Pashtuns and Hazaras?

Who are Pashtuns and Hazaras?

Key Difference: Hazaras are members of an Afghan ethnic minority group, whereas the Pashtuns are a united group of tribes composing the largest ethnic group of Afghanistan. Hazaras are considered as Persian speaking people and they mainly inhabit central Afghanistan.

Are Hazara Mongols?

3 The Western Hazaras are a group of Mongols living in western Afghanistan and adjacent parts of Iran.

What race are Hazaras?

The Hazaras are said to be of Mongolian and Central Asian descent, and the descendants of Mongolian leader Genghis Khan, who invaded Afghanistan in the 13th Century. They are mostly based in the mountainous area of central Afghanistan known as ‘Hazaristan’, or the land of the Hazaras.

Why do the Pashtuns hate that Hazaras?

Subsequently, the Pashtuns garrisoned in Hazarajat, treated the local Hazaras inferiorly and often committed arbitrary acts of cruelty and brutality against them. This caused great unrest and a deepening hatred between the Hazaras and their Pashtun rulers, causing the Hazaras to reach their tipping point in 1892.

Are Hazaras Shia or Sunni?

Hazaras predominantly practice Islam, mostly the Shi’a of the Twelver sect, with significant Sunni, some Isma’ili and Non-denominational Muslim minorities. The majority of Afghanistan’s population practice Sunni Islam; this may have contributed to the discrimination against them.

Are Pashtun Sunni or Shia?

Pashtuns are Sunni Muslims and can also be found in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan (about 14 million).

Was Genghis Khan a Hazara?

The Hazaras are said to be descendants of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire, and the Mongol soldiers who swept through the region in the 13th century.

Does Afghanistan have a caste system?

The caste system ranks the different ethnic groups of the people of Afghanistan and gives a status to their name, which determines the life they will lead and how it will be lead. There are 5 castes that an Afghani can be born into. These being Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, and Hazara.

Why are Hazaras targeted?

The Hazara community in Quetta, in Pakistan, has been the target of persecution and violence. Hazaras have been living in Afghanistan before partition since 1880s. Almost all migrated due to persecution by Abdur Rahman Khan and a good part in the 1990s due to ethnic cleansing by the Afghan Taliban.

What do the Hazaras believe?

Is Hazara a Kushan?

Hazara people are Turkic people and descendants of the Kushans. Millions of Hazara people were and are forced to leave their homeland, the country we call Afghanistan now.

Is Pakistan Sunni or Shia?

Almost all of the people of Pakistan are Muslims or at least follow Islamic traditions, and Islamic ideals and practices suffuse virtually all parts of Pakistani life. Most Pakistanis belong to the Sunni sect, the major branch of Islam. There are also significant numbers of Shiʿi Muslims.

What is the difference between Hazar and Hazara?

With time, the term Hazār could have been substituted for the Mongol word and now stands for the group of people, while the Hazara people in their native language call themselves ( āzra آزره) or ( azra ازره ). Although the origins of the Hazara people have not been fully reconstructed, Turkic and Mongol origin is probable for the majority.

Who are the Hazaras in Iran?

Further information: Afghans in Iran Hazaras in Iran are also referred to as Khawaris or Barbaris. Over the many years as a result of political unrest in Afghanistan some Hazaras have migrated to Iran. The local Hazara population has been estimated at 500,000 people of which at least one third have spent more than half their life in Iran.

What happened to the Hazara in Afghanistan?

 Unfortunately, since most other Afghans are Sunni Muslims, the Hazara have been persecuted and discriminated against for centuries. The Hazara backed the wrong candidate in a succession struggle in the late 19th century, and ended up rebelling against the new government.

What was the Hazarajat-nau-Hazara tussle?

However, within Hazarajat, rival Hazara political factions did engage in a non-violent however extreme tussle. The division was between the Tanzeem Nasle Nau Hazara, a party based in Quetta, of Hazara nationalists and secular intellectuals, and the Islamist parties in Hazarajat.