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Hazara Town residents are predominantly Hazara and speak [[Hazaragi]] as their mother tongue. Some of Hazara Town’s residents arrived as refugees in Quetta in 1996<ref>http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=search&docid=3e2d4d65e&query=hazara%20town</ref> when the Taliban regime in [[Afghanistan]] started ethnic and religious persecution of Hazaras. They initially stayed in mosques in Quetta using Hazara Town as a transit point to move on to Iran, Turkey and beyond. Local Hazaras are involved in small scale trade and businesses within Hazara Town and the city of Quetta. The main sources of income for men are to work as labourers in coal mines in Balochistan, engage in small scale shopkeeping and daily wage work.

In Pakistan most of the Hazara live in two neighbourhoods around the city of Quetta, Hazara Town and Mehrabad. [[Saira Batool]] a Hazara girl became one of the first ever female pilots in [[Pakistan Air Force]]. Hazaras are also politically active in Quetta and are represented by [[Hazara Democratic Party]], a secular liberal democratic party headed by Abdul Khaliq Hazara.<ref name="Dawn news">{{cite web | url=http://news.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/balochistans-hazaras-speak-out--qs | title=We are not separatists | accessdate=2010-12-13 | author=Qurat ul ain Siddiqui | date=Thursday, 07 May, 2009 | publisher=Dawn.com}}</ref> [[Hussain Ali Yousafi]], chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, was shot dead by unknown gunmen on January 26, 2009, in the city of Quetta. His assassins remain at large to this day. A well known Hazara in Pakistan was General [[Muhammad Musa]], who served as [[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)|Commander in Chief of the Pakistani Army]] between 1958 to 1966. He also served as Governor of [[West Pakistan]]. Literacy rates among Hazaras in relatively very high. Qayum Changezi was a legendary football player and Abrar Hussain represented Pakistan in international boxing championships. Flight lt. Shaheed Samad Changezi sacrificed his life in 1971, Shaheed Major Mohammad Ali Haidari and Shaheed Captain Zulfiqar Ali, both sacrificed their lives for Pakistan in Kargil war.

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