Hazara Town 4.18

Hazara Town is a lower- to middle-income area on the western outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan with a population of up to 750,000, of which an estimated two thirds are ethnic Hazaras and the remaining portion are Pashtun and Baloch.Hazara Town encompasses nine blocks, beginning at Brewery Road near Bolan Medical College and continuing to Kirani road. The area has a geographical importance, as it makes up the largest part of Chiltan Town of Quetta city.HistoryThe earliest record of Hazaras in the areas of present day Pakistan are found in the Broad-foot's sappers company in 1835 at Quetta. This sappers company participated in the First Anglo-Afghan War. Besides this Hazaras also worked in the agriculture farms in Sindh and construction of Sukkur barrage.Hazara Town, like the twin suburb of Mehr Abad, has built up over the last century due to chronic food deficiency in the Hazaristan region of Afghanistan and the persecution of Hazara people by Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan in the late 19th century.In his seminal book War and Migration, Alessandro Monsutti classifies the Hazara migration to Balochistan in the following phases: