It is also a gateway into the mountainous central province of
Hazarajat, also home mainly to Shia Hazara people.
A persecuted Shia community from the highland region of
Hazarajat in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Hazaras are identified by their facial features.
They may have held this time, but as we've learnt from Karachi, the
Hazarajat and Punjab, strongholds ultimately fall.
The Hazara community are an ethnic group native to the region of
Hazarajat in central Afghanistan, but their significant minority resides in Pakistan.
When the Taliban destroyed the ancient statues of Buddha, carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in
Hazarajat, central Afghanistan, in March 2001, Al Qaradawi did not lift a finger to stop them and of course, nor did any of his Qatari sponsors, who were friends with the Taliban and still operate an embassy for the terrorist group in Doha 16 years after its fall in Kabul.
The other part of the Hazaras that remained in Afghanistan fled the cities and escaped to the mountains of the central highlands of Afghanistan that is known today as
Hazarajat or Hazaristan.
Hizb-e-Wahdat is Hazara organization and is based in
Hazarajat. Jumbish- e-Milli is an Uzbek political grouping.
They have reportedly fled to
Hazarajat to join a warlord.
Notably, for one of his vice-president, he has Mohammad Mohaqiq as candidate, who is a warlord entrenched among his own large ethnic Hazara community dominating the
Hazarajat region of Afghanistan.
They comprise of 7% of the total population, settled in
Hazarajat and have adopted Dari or Persian as their language.
For nearly 1600 years, the monumental statues of the standing Buddha, carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan Valley in the
Hazarajat region of Afghanistan, stood supremely harmless, threatening none.