Hazara achievements and firsts
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A growing list of milestones reached by Hazaras around the world, each linked to a sourced article.
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Sport
- 2008: Rohullah Nikpai won Afghanistan's first Olympic medal.
- 2024: Zakia Khudadadi won the first medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team.
Public life
- 1958: Muhammad Musa became Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army.
- 2001: Sima Samar became Afghanistan's Minister of Women's Affairs.
- 2005: Habiba Sarabi became Afghanistan's first woman provincial governor.
- 2019: Jalila Haider was named to the BBC's 100 Women.
Scholarship and the arts
- 1913: Faiz Muhammad Katib Hazara began publishing the Siraj al-Tawarikh.
- 2017: A dambura festival in Bamyan marked 50 years of performing by Safdar Tawakoli.