Hazara, Pakistan

The Hazara Division (composed of Pashto: هزاره, Persian هزاره, Urdu: هزاره and English Division ), was the official name of a region of five administrative districts in the former North West Frontier Province (short NWFP) in Pakistan with its capital in Abbottabad.

The five districts of Hazara Division were Abbottabad, Battagram, Haripur, Kohistan and Kohat (literally, land of mountains ) and Mansehra.

In the area live about 5-6 million people, of which over 95 % are Hazara. The language of the Hazara region is as Hindko (also Hinko or Hindkohan, literally Indus mountain or mountain in the Hindu ) and is an Indo-Iranian language. This language has not yet been recognized as an official language. Traffic and official language is Urdu continue. Chance also Hazaragi, a Persian dialect and the mother tongue of Afghan Hazara is spoken.

The subdivision into divisions as district levels has been abolished in 2000 in an administrative reform, but the subdivisions in divisions are still used mainly in the Hazara areas. The Election Commission leads the elections by the then Division subdivisions.

Even before the official renaming designated the Pashtuns, the majority population in the NWFP, the province as Pakhtunkhwa. Finally, the name of the province has been confirmed by an Act of Parliament in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 1, 2010. Members of the Pakistani Parliament changed the constitution for it. The area was unofficially known in the region and officially in Pashtun rulers in Afghanistan as Pashtunistan. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa renamed triggered when the population of the Hazara Division unrest, demonstrations and demands for independence. Furthermore, the population of the Hazara region required for their districts a political rise, a status as a province.

Your demonstration slogans against the renaming were also listen to Hazaragi. The demonstrations many people were injured and about 7 people were killed. The Hazara are different from the majority population by their Shiite faith and Mongolian appearance. Therefore, it is assumed that the origin of the ethnic group is due to descendants of the armies of Genghis Khan and the dynasties of Timurid and Mughal. Many refugees from Afghanistan, including a large number of Hazaras from Afghanistan were well received there.

The population of the Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as in whole is generally hospitable. In Pashtun hospitality is a matter of Pashtunwali. The Hindko speakers, also referred to as ' Hazarwal are commonly known as friendly and peaceful. Begging is frowned upon as well as in Hazara in Afghanistan. The region is famous as an industrial area and in summer days cool.

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