"Under Siege": Fear and defiance mark life for Pakistan's Hazaras
High walls around the neighbourhoods of Pakistan's embattled Hazara community in the southwestern city of Quetta are designed to protect them from extremist militants, but also serve as a constant reminder of the threat they face.
Soldiers and security checkpoints greet visitors to Hazara Town, one of two large guarded neighbourhoods in the capital of Baluchistan, a province where religious and sectarian groups often target the mostly Shia Hazaras with bombs and guns.
Syed Raza Hazara, 18, back flips as he performs Parkour at the Qayum Papa Stadium.
Houses belonging to ethnic Hazara community, stand on a hilltop in Mariabad.
People from ethnic Hazara community play a game Sang Girag (stone throwing) near a graveyard.
Hazara children play on a trampoline.
Mohammad Asif Shahyan from the Hazara community, CEO of a Pioneers school, watches an assembly prayer. "I'm a social activist working for the betterment of the society to uplift the youth," Shahyan said.
A Hazara girl with traditional jewellery poses for a photograph during a practice ahead of the Hazara Culture Day.
A Hazara girl attends an assembly prayer.
Ibrahim Hazara, 70, poses for a photograph while selling apricots from his push cart at a market.
Naveed Ali Hazara, 23, poses for a photograph at a gym. "We are doing bodybuilding; firstly to build health and secondly, as sports gives you extra strength and keeps us away from drugs," Naveed said.
Mohammad Bakir Hazara, 18, a carpenter, poses for a photograph at his workshop.
A Hazara girl with traditional jewellery does embroidery at a cultural stall during the Hazara Culture Day.
Abdul Khaliq Hazara, 52, politician and chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), which has two provincial assembly representatives, gestures during an interview.
Sardar Sahil, 30-year-old Hazara lawyer and rights activist, eats breakfast with his mother.
Sardar Sahil sports his licensed gun as he gets ready to leave for office.
A Hazara man reads the Koran in front of photos of victims who lost their lives during target killings and bomb attacks, at the graveyard called Shuhda Qabristan (martyred graveyard).
A Hazara man stands beside a poster depicting Jamkaran Mosque in Iran.
Chief Minister Baluchistan Jam Kamal Khan (second left), along with chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) Abdul Khaliq Hazara (third left) and others wear traditional Hazargi caps, as they cut the ribbon to begin Hazara Culture Day celebrations.
Siblings from a Hazara community ride a bike to school.
A Hazara taxi driver, poses for a photograph. His tattoo reads in Urdu: "loneliness" and the letter "F" stands for the first letter of the name of his friend who was killed in a bomb blast.
People watch traditional music performance during the Hazara Culture Day celebration at the Qayum Papa Stadium.
Men install Pakistan's national flag on a stall ahead of the Hazara Culture Day celebration at the Qayum Papa Stadium.
Afghanistan's Hazara singer Zahra Elham, performs Hazargi songs during the Hazara Culture Day celebrations.
Resident walk past a shop during sunset hours along a street in Mariabad.
