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Thursday, Dec 20, 2001 – PTI ASMAL WATT (Kabul), DEC. 19. “Taliban or no Taliban we have nothing to fear in Afghanistan. Nobody can touch the temple of goddess Durga,” says 60-year-old Uttam Chand, a pujari in the Asmal Watt temple built a century ago by the Hindu community on the outskirts of the capital… Continue reading Century-old temple survives Taliban rule

Rupali Ghosh with Gajinder Singh. Source Taranjeet Kaur doesn’t know how old she is, but her mother thinks she must be around 10 years old. She was born, says Jaan Kaur, her mother, soon after the Soviet-backed Najibullah government in Afghanistan was overthrown in 1992. “Those were days of great trouble,” recalls Jaan Kaur in… Continue reading The Heart-rending Story of Afghani Sikhs

23 November, 2001 07:08 GMT By Michael Steen   – Reuters KABUL (Reuters)- Chanting “Waheguru”, or God, 60 Afghan Sikh and Hindu men, women and children worship in their bright tinsel-clad temple in the capital Kabul, hoping Afghanistan’s next rulers will tolerate religious minorities. Afghanistan has always been overwhelmingly Muslim but until the upheaval of the… Continue reading Afghan Sikhs and Hindus hope for tolerance

Source Kabul, November 23 Chanting “Wahe Guru”, 60 Afghan Sikh and Hindu men, women and children worship in their bright tinsel-clad temple in Kabul, hoping that Afghanistan’s next rulers will tolerate religious minorities. Afghanistan has always been overwhelmingly Muslim but until the upheaval of the early 1990s, when ethnic militias fought bloody street battles in… Continue reading Afghan Hindus, Sikhs back ex-king

Afghan Sikhs, Hindus ask Govt to expedite visa process PTI (Amritsar, October 26, 2001) Source: Hindustan Times Four Sikh and two Hindu families today crossed over into India from Afghanistan and heaved a sigh of relief even as they regretted that the Indian authorities were not expediting the visa process. The people from terror-hit Kabul… Continue reading Afghan Sikhs, Hindus ask Govt to expedite visa process