{"id":18969,"date":"2017-01-07T07:41:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T07:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=18969"},"modified":"2017-01-07T07:41:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T07:41:50","slug":"gunmen-kill-eight-hazara-miners-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/gunmen-kill-eight-hazara-miners-in-afghanistan.html","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Kill Eight Hazara Miners in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Gunmen Kill Eight Hazara Miners in Afghanistan<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Gunmen Kill Eight Hazara Miners in Afghanistan:-<\/strong> Unidentified gunmen killed eight members of Afghanistan&#8217;s Hazara minority who were working as miners in the northern province of Baghlan, a local government official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Faiz Mohammad Amiri, governor of Taleh va Barfak district, said the eight dead and three other wounded, who all came from Daykundi province in central Afghanistan, had been pulled out of a vehicle and shot on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">He blamed the Taliban, which controls the district where the incident occurred but the insurgent movement denied any involvement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;The people working in this mine had our permission and we had good relations,&#8221; Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. &#8220;They hadn&#8217;t created any problems.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">He blamed &#8220;arbakis&#8221; or members of informal local militias, in the area for the killings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Hazaras are a Persian-speaking, largely Shia minority, who have faced a long history of discrimination and violence in mainly Sunni Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Last year, scores of Hazara were killed in a series of attacks in Kabul, some claimed by Islamic State in an apparent attempt to stir sectarian tensions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The incident underlines the dire security situation in the country, where government forces now control only two-thirds of national territory and violence is a daily occurrence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2017\/01\/07\/world\/asia\/07reuters-afghanistan-miners.html?ref=world<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/gunmen-kill-eight-hazara-miners-in-afghanistan.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen Kill Eight Hazara Miners in Afghanistan Gunmen Kill Eight Hazara Miners in Afghanistan:- Unidentified gunmen killed eight members of Afghanistan&#8217;s Hazara minority who were working as miners in the northern province of Baghlan, a local government official said. 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