Hazara nationalism

The movement propagates the view that Muslims are not a nation and that ethnic loyalty must surpass religious loyalty, though this view has been challenged by both the 1890s independence uprisings of Hazaristan and the systematic discrimination many Hazaras have historically faced within Afghanistan.

[1] Hazara nationalism stems from lingual and ancestral roots in the Hazaristan region in the modern-day central Afghanistan.

According to them, these accusations are the usual propaganda tactic that the Pashtun-dominated governments use against the Hazara people.

The aim of the group was to establish political and constitutional reform in the Hazaristan region; and an end to the military despotism of Abdur Rahman of the Barakzai dynasty[5] for the eventual unification of all Hazara lands into an independent state.

In his own words, Mehdi left the Taliban and began rebelling as a result of persecution of Shia Muslims and Hazaras.