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GG2.NET NEWS [25/11/2006]
A SIKH group urged the government on Friday to arrange safe passage for Sikhs living in Afghanistan who said they faced humiliation and ill-treatment there.
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) was reacting to the agency’s report that said Sikhs in southern Afghanistan were spat on by locals and their men stoned.
The report said Sikhs hid in back alleys in the city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the hardline Islamic Taliban movement, and yearn for the safety of India.
‘The government of India should look at the Sikhs in Afghanistan as its own citizens and act urgently to give them the option of safe passage from Afghanistan where their religion is in danger,’ DSGMC president Harvinder Singh Sarna said.
He said New Delhi must rehabilitate Sikhs who choose to come to India but Indian officials would not immediately comment.
Sikhs who fled Afghanistan in the 1990s and live in India say New Delhi should do more for them as well as their community members still residing in the Islamic nation.