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
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The plight of Hindus and Sikhs in Jalalabad – September 2000
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
Taliban diktat to non-Muslims
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
Bleak future faces Afghan Hindus in Germany
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
Afghan Refugees Seek Indian citizenship
From D.N. Chaturvedi Tribune News Service Tuesday, July 21, 1998 FARIDABAD, July 20 — Thousands of Afghans, mostly Hindus and Sikhs who had taken refuge in India after fundamentalists came to power in Kabul in 1992, have been seeking Indian citizenship since then, but of no avail. More than 1,500 of them have settled in… Continue reading Afghan Refugees Seek Indian citizenship
5TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN SHIBIR
Report by Pratish Sthankiya The fifth annual European Shibir was held in Rurberg Germany from the 28th to the 31st March 1997. A parallel Hindu Sevika Samiti Shibir was also held. The camp site was a youth hostel situated on a hill overlooking the lake in Simmerath (near Bonn, western Germany). 193 swayamsevaks and sevikas… Continue reading 5TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN SHIBIR
Hindus Abandon Afghanistan
April 1994 By Lavina Melwani, New York Kandahar in Afghanistan is a small town-a sleepy, four-bazaar town-but within its heart it holds a burden of griefs: ten-year-old Mukesh had been sent by his mother to the nearest bazaar to fetch yogurt for lunch. He never returned home alive. Caught in a sudden volley of cross-fire… Continue reading Hindus Abandon Afghanistan