یادگار هزارهHazara Yadgar
The living memorial of the Hazara people
Yadgar means a keepsake, something kept so that it is not forgotten. This is a shared record of Hazara history, heroes, achievements and losses, written by the community and open to everyone.
Heroes & People
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Zakia Khudadadi
Zakia Khudadadi is a Hazara para-taekwondo athlete who won the first ever medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team, a bronze at Paris 2024.
Jalila Haider
Jalila Haider is a human rights lawyer from Quetta, Pakistan, described by the BBC as the first female lawyer from the Hazara community, and named to its 100 Women list in 2019.
Habiba Sarabi
Habiba Sarabi is a Hazara haematologist and politician who in 2005 became the first woman to serve as a provincial governor in Afghanistan, in Bamyan.
Muhammad Musa
General Muhammad Musa, of Hazara descent, was Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from 1958 to 1966 and later Governor of West Pakistan.
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Abdul Ali Mazari
Abdul Ali Mazari led the Hazara party Hizb-i Wahdat from 1989 until he was killed in Taliban custody in March 1995. Many Hazaras revere him as a martyr and champion of their rights.
Sharbat Ali Changezi
Sharbat Ali Changezi is a retired Air Marshal of the Pakistan Air Force and former fighter pilot, born to a Hazara family in Quetta.
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- History3From the Hazarajat to the present day.
- Memorial11Massacres, attacks and the people lost to them.
- Heroes & People10Leaders, scholars, artists and defenders of rights.
- Achievements1Firsts, medals, books and milestones.
- Culture & Language2Hazaragi, the dambura, crafts and customs.
- Food & Dishes10Breads, dumplings, soups and sweets from Hazara kitchens.
- Books8Written by Hazaras, and written about Hazaras.
- Places2Homelands and neighbourhoods.
- Diaspora3Hazara communities around the world.
- Where Hazaras liveA map of communities worldwide, with estimates.
In memory
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All changes- Books by Hazara authorsA growing list of books written by Hazara authors, from a chronicler at the Afghan court to refugee poets and memoirists today.
- Books about the HazarasScholarly studies and other books about Hazara history, migration, language and life, including a well-known novel with a Hazara character.
- Siraj al-TawarikhA history of Afghanistan in Persian by the Hazara chronicler Faiz Muhammad Katib, published in Kabul from 1913 to 1915, and a main record of the campaigns of the 1890s.
- The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-SharifThe life story of Najaf Mazari, a Hazara shepherd's son who learned rug-making in Mazar-i Sharif and became an author in Australia, written with Robert Hillman in 2008.
- OutspokenThe memoir of the Hazara doctor and human rights defender Sima Samar, written with Sally Armstrong and published by Random House Canada in 2024.
- The Hazaras of AfghanistanA historical, cultural, economic and political study of the Hazaras by the Hazara scholar Sayed Askar Mousavi, published by Curzon Press and St. Martin's Press.
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