Minority group: Shia

In the third and final blog sharing findings from a survey of attitudes towards the Hazara Shia in Quetta, Pakistan (following government broadcast messages referring…

In the first of our three part series on the impact of Covid-19 on attitudes towards Hazara Shia in Quetta, Pakistan, Sajjad Hussain and Raheela…

Heritage destruction, and the ideological motivations behind it, is vital for understanding conflict as well as addressing questions on what heritage is documented, preserved and…

The spread of Covid-19 in Pakistan was largely blamed on Shia pilgrims returning from Iran, including Hazara Shias, after Iran announced its first Covid-19 deaths…

Asad Gokal Since September, when UAE locked a deal for normalizing relations with Israel, alarm bells began to ring louder for the Pakistani Shia diaspora…

The Shia Hazaras in Pakistan are one of the most persecuted religious minorities. According to a 2019 report produced by the National Commission for Human…

Shia account for approximately 10–15 per cent of the Muslim population in Pakistan, which has a largely Sunni Muslim population. Anti-Shia violence, led by extremist…

Asad Gokal Institutions of education, inching closer to a violent wave of extremism, is an ill omen for a country as culturally, ethnically, and religiously…

Asad Gokal The Shia women were beaten by batons and dragged by the Narowal police which had raided their homes to arrest their men for…

The theme of this special collection of papers, the lived experiences of women who belong to religious minorities, has been a blind spot both in…

Religious hate-speech and exclusion are an everyday experience for religious minorities in Pakistan. Over the past year, the youth development organisation Bargad, funded by Minority…

After the recent anti-Shia wave in Pakistan, the Shia community vows to come out in record numbers on the day of Arbaeen. Meanwhile, religious extremists…