Hazaras risk lives to flee persecution
Militants target Pakistani group
Posted: October 21, 2012 at 4:04 a.m.
Saeed Qurban, an ethnic Hazara, holds his grandson next to a photograph of his son, Ali Raza, who was lost at sea with other Pakistanis trying to flee to Australia.
As he knelt in prayer to mark one of Islam’s holiest days, Ali Raza Qurban saw a childhood friend and dozens of others die in a suicide attack on their Shiite mosque. Sunni militants were again targeting minority ethnic Hazaras in this city of narrow streets and wide-open hatreds.
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