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Syria s proxy war widens gulf between Sunnis and Shias
After a period of relative calm, the conflict in Syria is reigniting the tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Pakistan: groups from both sects are involved in the clashes in Syria. The authorities fear a new wave of sectarian violence. Background by Mohammad Luqman
Few people outside the borders of Pakistan are familiar with the country’s small ethnic minority of Hazaras. In neighbouring Afghanistan, the Hazaras form the third largest ethnic group, but they only moved into the territory that forms modern-day Pakistan at the end of the 19th century. The reason behind the move was a rigorous persecution of the Hazaras by the Afghan Emir, Abdur Rahman Khan.