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Source Kabul, May 12 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is on a two-day visit to Afghanistan, met members of the Afghan-Sikh community in Kabul Thursday and heard them out as they shared their problems, including their difficulties in getting Indian citizenship. The prime minister met members of the community in the presidential palace… Continue reading Afghan-Sikh community meets Manmohan, shares its problems

Source: The Times of India Dharitri Bhattacharjee, TNN, Feb 27, 2011, 02.31am IST In Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwala’, an Afghan moneylender longs for his ‘watan’ even as he develops affection for a little girl, Mini, in Kolkata. The character of Rehmat, later immortalized by Balraj Sahni on screen, became synonymous with the Kabuliwalas who arrived in the… Continue reading Afghans in India yearn for home

Saturday, February 19, 2011, 09:30 Source: This is Leicester Members of Leicester’s Hindu community are supporting an Afghan family’s battle to stay in this country. Arti Kumar and her two sons, Akash and Ravi, fled the war-ravaged country in September, 2007 after being targeted by the Taliban. The Hindu family claimed asylum in Britain but… Continue reading Leicester’s Hindus asked to help family stay in Britain

February 2nd 2011 By Rahila Bano Source: BBC Asian Network A Hindu family facing deportation to Afghanistan say they fear religious persecution by the Taliban if they are forced to return. Arti Kumar says she fled the country in September 2007 with her two sons, Akash and Ravi, because they had been targeted by the… Continue reading Hindu family facing Afghan deportation fears Taliban

Source: Pajhwok News by Sultana Rahim Ayubi on 27 January, 2011 – 08:45 KABUL (PAN): When he was 12, Velinder Singh, a Sikh,  was bullied so viciously by his Muslim classmates, that he dropped out of school and went to work with his father as a shopkeeper. “One day my son’s classmates cornered him and forced him at knife point to read out the… Continue reading Hindu, Sikh children bullied out of school

New Delhi | Jan 12, 2011 Source: Outlook India A delegation of Sikh community leaders met the Prime Minister here to press for granting citizenship to Afghan Sikhs and Hindus of Indian origin and passage of Anand Marriage Act to make registration of Sikh marriages compulsory. The delegation led by President of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara… Continue reading Sikhs Meets PM on Citizenship for Afghans, Marriage Act

Source: Pajhwok News by Maiwand Fida on 18 October, 2010 KHOST CITY (PAN): Bagwan Dase, 64, is the only Hindu left in eastern Khost province. The hundreds of others, he says, fled after warlords seized their homes and lands and “we fear to ask for the return of our properties”. Dase sits in a Hindu… Continue reading Only 1 Hindu left in Khost