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Source Afghanistan, Kabul, Jan. 19 / Trend News, A. Hakimi/ Hindu minority groups in Kandahar have criticized the government for not improving their squalid living conditions, and they are threatening to leave Afghanistan within one week. Ethnically, Afghanistan is the most multi ethnic country in Asia that has been facing some problems in this regard… Continue reading Hindus are threatening to leave Afghanistan within one week

PANTHIC.ORG Published on December 19, 2008 NEW YORK, New York – —United Sikhs, a global Sikh advocacy group, organized a global conference on Sikh civil and human rights this past week. It was dubbed the first Sikhs Civil Rights Conference. Some of the issues discussed were the right to wear turban and other symbols of… Continue reading Report on First Sikh Global Civil Rights Conference

Source NEW DELHI: The BJP, which has launched a concerted bid to oust Congress in Delhi, on Tuesday promised full statehood to the Capital, a review of the BJP, came out with its blueprint for city’s development in next five years. More Pictures 2021 Master Plan and controversial BRT corridor, early implementation of the Supreme… Continue reading BJP promises full statehood for Capital

Source New Delhi, October 18: Asef has a degree in engineering from the Polytechnic University in Kabul and had a good life back home. A refugee now, he ekes out a living by supplying food to restaurants and can barely make ends meet. After the Taliban took over, Asef had to flee in 2006. But… Continue reading Refugees in Delhi: ‘Fewer chances of subsistence, jobs’

POSTED: Monday, October 6, 2008 UPDATED: 9:59 pm EDT October 6, 2008 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Members of the Sikh religion and the America Civil Liberties Union marched outside the Duval County Jail Sunday, claiming an inmate’s religious rights were violated when he was forced to cut his hair and have his face shaved. Sikhs said… Continue reading Despite Protests City Stands By Inmate Haircut Policy

On or about July 1, 2008, Sikh prisoner Jagmohan Singh Ahuja suffered an egregious violation of his religious rights when jail officers forcibly cut his hair in Duval County Jail. It is against a Sikh’s religious practice to cut his/her hair, as kesh (unshorn hair) covered by a dastaar (Sikh turban) is one of five… Continue reading Sikh Prisoner’s Hair is Cut Against His Will

JAGMOHAN SINGH Monday, 11 August 2008 AMRITSAR : Former Parliamentarian and president of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) Simarnjit Singh Mann here today has urged the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to do the needful to get unlocked the Sikh Gurdwara (Sikh shrines) in Afghanistan. Talking to the media persons here Monday Mann said that being… Continue reading Untitled