By Tan Ong – June 8th 2011 – Source
Afghanistan (CHAKRA) — On a two day visit to Afghanistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, met members of the Afghan-Sikh minority community in Kabul. He listened to their issues with regards to obtaining Indian citizenship and other problems the Sikh community was facing such as threats and killings in Muslim-majority Afghanistan.
To hear the problems, the Prime Minister met members of the community in the presidential palace complex.
The community members stated their concern about their community’s population decreasing because of migration out of the country, including India. Over 90 percent of the Sikh Afghan community has migrated out of the country.
The lack of a proper cremation ground in Kabul and constant attacks by Islamic extremists has caused an issue for the Sikh community to complete their funeral rites.
In total there are 531 Afghan-Sikh families in Afghanistan of which 143 families reside in Kabul.
An orange-coloured “robe of honour” was presented to the prime minister, know as a siropa. Thereafter, the prime minister was introduced to members of the Indian embassy, the Indo-Tibetan border police, as well as to the Indian Medical Mission.
Manmohan Singh praised the community for staying strong during hard times. He saluted their courage and was pleased to see the community creating goodwill for India.
i expect some good initiative from the indian PM , but he is bound by some christians , who never want Hindus and Sikhs to come to India.
Umm, he is not bound by the Christians at all, it is mainly the Hindu majority government that wouldn’t want more Sikhs, even as little as 500 of them in India. I am just stating a point, because Christians would be the last one to have a problem with this. Lets hope they get their requests.
yes,exactly its mainly because hindu’s majority in india and they dont want more sikhs to migrate in india.People forgot the sikh history and sacrifices they made to protect the “FAITH” especially at the time of tenth GURU DHAN DHAN “GURU GOBIND SINGH” SAHIB JI.search and see in google everyone.thanx
yes,exactly its mainly because hindu’s majority in india and they dont want more sikhs to migrate in india.People forgot the sikh history and sacrifices they made to protect the “FAITH” especially at the time of tenth GURU DHAN DHAN “GURU GOBIND SINGH” SAHIB JI.search and see in google everyone.thanx
Madhav and Karan I dont know where are you from but we Indian Hindus always want our people specially our hindus and sikh brothers stay save in hostile countries like Pakistan and Afganistan. We the general people of India always ready to welcome you all. Come to India and join us, we are waiting for you but dont know what’s our Govt plan, anyway once you have landed in India there will be no govt official will be able to thrown you people out from here based on humanity back ground. This nation ‘India’ formed based on religious back ground in 1947 and our Hindu and sikh brothers & sisters are always welcome here.
Kaushik
Madhav and Karan I dont know where are you from but we Indian Hindus always want our people specially our hindus and sikh brothers stay save in hostile countries like Pakistan and Afganistan. We the general people of India always ready to welcome you all. Come to India and join us, we are waiting for you but dont know what’s our Govt plan, anyway once you have landed in India there will be no govt official will be able to thrown you people out from here based on humanity back ground. This nation ‘India’ formed based on religious back ground in 1947 and our Hindu and sikh brothers & sisters are always welcome here.
Kaushik