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Chris Sands, Foreign Correspondent – The National Last Updated: May 17. 2008 10:11PM UAE / May 17. 2008 6:11PM GMT KABUL // Afghanistan’s minority Sikhs and Hindus say they are facing increasing persecution from the government and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. They claim widespread discrimination is threatening their rituals and traditions, and that many are… Continue reading Sikhs and Hindus claim persecution

By Alfred de Tavares Stockholm, April 20 2008  (IANS) Two asylum seekers from South Asia – one a Kashmiri Hindu and the other an Afghan Sikh – are languishing in a Swedish migrant detention centre outsideStockholm . Dhillow Singh, the 37-year-old Kashmiri who came to Sweden illegally five years ago, has been at the Marsta… Continue reading Indian, Afghan asylum seekers languish in Swedish prison

Staff Report LAHORE: The Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) and Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) will welcome about 4,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims arriving today (Friday) for the Besakhi Festival, ETPB officials told Daily Times on Thursday. ETPB Deputy Administrator (Shrines) Faraz Abbas told Daily Times that the Indian Sikh pilgrims were expected to celebrate… Continue reading Besakhi festival starts tomorrow: 4,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims

By SARAH GARLAND, Staff Reporter of the Sun | March 31, 2008 Strapped into the trunk of a Toyota sedan, the smiling face of a deity draped in plastic flowers rolls slowly down a suburban Long Island street behind a crowd of chanting women in saris. Holding up golden pineapples wrapped in red and gold… Continue reading Hindus Flee Afghanistan, Flourish in New York

Nearly 4,000 Sikh and Hindu refugees from Afghanistan, who are back due to civil war, are peeved at the lopsided citizenship norms of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. Though 205 Hindu and Sikh refugees from Afghanistan have been granted Indian citizenship, many are unhappy, as their families are still living like refugees. The refugees… Continue reading Status of Sikh refugees from Afghanistan held in abeyance by India

20 Feb 2008 14:12:35 GMT Source: UNHCR NEW DELHI, India, February 20 (UNHCR) – It’s a room bathed in sunlight up a narrow flight of stairs. Sounds of children learning Hindi, one of India’s many languages, filter down. It sounds like a typical class in urban India, except the children are refugees from Myanmar and… Continue reading Afghan refugee teaches Hindi to tots in India