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Wednesday, 23 May, 2001, 15:27 GMT 16:27 UK – BBC Source A controversial order that Hindus in Afghanistan should carry identity tags is designed to protect them from police harassment, a Taleban official has said. Giving details of the edict, the head of the Taleban news agency said Hindus should carry thumb-size pieces of yellow… Continue reading Taleban justify tagging Hindus

May 23, 2001 Posted: 10:30 PM HKT (1430 GMT) CNN.com/WORLD From staff and wire reports KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s ruling Taleban have defended an edict requiring Hindus to wear yellow badges to distinguish them from Muslims. A senior Taleban information ministry official said the ruling seeks to protect Hindus from religious police enforcing Muslim rules,… Continue reading Taleban defend Hindu ‘tags’

By Scott Baldauf, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, 13 April 2001 http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/afghan/sikh.html JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN: It’s not just the variety of fabrics in his shop that distinguishes Gurmouk Singh from the other merchants in this bustling city of commerce. Most of all, it is Mr. Singh’s distinctive beard and turban that mark him as… Continue reading Sikhs set example for getting along with the Taliban

Taliban Destroy More Pre-Islamic Religious Artifacts – March 2001 Buddhist-Hindu complex also demolished in quest to rid Afghanistan of artifacts the Taliban consider false idols. By Kathy Gannon GHAZNI, Afghanistan, March 13 (AP) – At least two weeks before Afghanistan’s supreme ruler ordered all statues in the country destroyed, zealous Taliban soldiers wielding pickaxes hacked… Continue reading Taliban Destroy More Pre-Islamic Religious Artifacts

The plight of Hindus and Sikhs in Jalalabad – September 2000 RAWA report from Jalalabad September 2000 Afghan Hindus and Sikhs have lived continuously in Jalalabad for many years. Previously there were 700 families, but now there are only 40-50. At the beginning of Jahadi’s power, like the rest of our fellow countrymen, the Hindus… Continue reading The plight of Hindus and Sikhs in Jalalabad – September 2000

From DN Chaturvedi Tribune News Service Tuesday, December 21, 1999 FARIDABAD, Dec 20 — The fundamentalist Taliban government in Afghanistan has issued a number of strict orders to be followed by the Hindus and Sikhs in that country. Most of the non-Muslims have already left Afghanistan after the takeover of the country by Pakistan-backed Taliban… Continue reading Taliban diktat to non-Muslims

Author: Manik Mehta Publication: The Observer Source Hindu refugees from Afghanistan, who first fled the Soviet invasion of that country in 1980 and later the turmoils of the ensuing civil war, face a bleak future in Germany. Germany has an Afghan population of 60,000 consisting largely of Muslim refugees. Some 6,000 are Hindu and have… Continue reading Bleak future faces Afghan Hindus in Germany