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Source  – Rediff September 13, 2007 There are 11,500 refugees in India and the role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is to find a home for them. Last week, two Iraqi families protested outside the UNHCR office in New Delhi because their cases for resettlement had not been submitted yet. Nayana Bose,… Continue reading Most Afghan refugees are Hindus, Sikhs

Source By Ravindra Sheoran, New Delhi, Aug.20 : Giving Afghan youth, including those belonging to the Sikh community, a sense of freedom to choose and live is a motto the Khalsa Diwan Welfare Society here swears by. This voluntary organisation set up in 1993 is taking steps to ensure that refugees from Afghanistan, especially children… Continue reading Delhi’s Khalsa Diwan Welfare Society transforming Afghan kids’ lives

Source By Ravindra Sheoran New Delhi, Aug.20: The turmoil in Afghanistan may have compelled a large number of Sikh families to flee their motherland, and now a majority of those living in India are seeking a new life here, and hope that the Indian Government will come forward to resurrect their lives in some way.… Continue reading Afghanistani Sikh families seek a new life in India

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Source Written by WSN Bureau Thursday, June 14, 2007 ImageQueens, New York: The recent incident pertaining to the Sikh boy’s hair being forcibly cut by a fellow-student, at Newton High Schoool, Elmhurst, Queens, NY, came as a shock to the Sikh community. To express dismay and to convey concern to appropriate quarters, United Sikhs, in… Continue reading Advocacy and Multifaith groups speak out vociferously on NY hair shearing incident

Forced to wear yellow patches in the days of the Taliban, the homesick Sikhs of Afghanistan still hide in back alleys and yearn for India. In the Taliban’s birthplace, the southern city of Kandahar, their children cannot go to school and locals stone or spit on the men in the streets, who mostly try to… Continue reading Afghan Sikhs forced to lie about miseries

Source Afghanistan: Forced to wear yellow patches in the days of the Taliban, the homesick Sikhs of Afghanistan still hide in back alleys and yearn for India. In the Taliban’s birthplace, the southern city of Kandahar, their children cannot go to school and locals stone or spit on the men in the streets, who mostly… Continue reading Afghanistan’s Sikhs yearn for India