Qarabaghi, Qara Baghi or Karabagh (Dari: قره‌باغی) is a Hazara tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan that originates from the Qarabagh district of Ghazni Province in Afghanistan.[1]

Etymology

Qarabagh is a compound of the Turkic word qara or kara, meaning black, and the Persian word bagh, meaning garden, creating the compound meaning of 'black garden'.[2] It is cognate to the Azeri word Qarabağ ([ɡɑˈɾɑbɑɣ]), as in the Karabakh region of the Lesser Caucasus.

Geographic distribution

Most Qarabaghi live in and originate from the aforementioned Qarabagh District of Ghazni Province. The Qarabaghi are one of the major Hazara tribes in the city of Quetta, along with the Dai Zangi, Uruzgani, and Maska. The Qarabaghi mainly reside in the Nauabad locale, with a minority living in the Mari Abad and Hazara Town areas. There is also a Qarabaghi minority in Australia and Indonesia, as well as other countries that the Hazara reside in.

Relations with the Taliban

The Qarabaghi tribe is notable for its close relations with the Taliban, which arose due to their close proximity to the Sunni Pashtun population surrounding them, with which they even intermarry. The tribe has joint security initiatives with the Taliban, and a number of its members became Taliban fighters, participating in the Taliban insurgency.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hazara tribal structure, Program for Culture and Conflict Studies, US Naval Postgraduate School.
  2. ↑ "Dictionary".
  3. ↑ COI Report: Afghanistan - Recruitment by armed groups (PDF). European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA). September 2016. pp. 19–20. doi:10.2847/044654. ISBN 978-92-9494-181-7. Qarabaghi, a cluster of villages near the provincial capital of Ghazni, inhabited by a community of Shia Hazaras ... are surrounded by a Sunni population and have very normalised and friendly relations with them, including even inter-marriages. In this particular context, these Hazara communities had active Taliban fighters. ... The Hazaras joined with the Sunni Pashtuns in collective security or governance initiatives which were sometimes directed by the Taliban.


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