Source [ 9 Aug, 2006 1738hrs ISTIANS ] KABUL: Pakistan has released an Afghan Sikh journalist who was arrested on the Pakistan-Afghan border and tortured on charges of being an Indian national, and also apologised over the ‘mistreatment’. Spokesperson of the Radio and Television of Afghanistan, Anwar Wafadar Samandar, informed media persons in Kabul Wednesday… Continue reading Pakistan releases Afghan Sikh journalist
With Afghan Hindus and Sikhs from Kabul to Koln – July 2006 – Farsi
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German Deportation Order on Afghan Refugees Unconscionable
Press Release German Deportation Order on Afghan Refugees Unconscionable WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 18, 2006) – In a June 28, 2006 memo sent by Senator for Internal Affairs, Mr. Udo Nagel, in Hamburg, Germany, it is noted that Hamburg will immediately begin to offer voluntary return to Afghan refugee families obligated to leave Germany, and if… Continue reading German Deportation Order on Afghan Refugees Unconscionable
Return of Hindu, Sikh refugees to Afghanistan opposed
Source Friday July 13, 2007 (0252 PST) NEW YORK,: A Washington-based Hindu Human Rights advocacy group has urged the governments of Britain and Germany not to force Afghan Hindu and Sikh refugees to return to Afghanistan. The third annual report of the Hindu America Foundation HAF — also urged the US to impress upon British… Continue reading Return of Hindu, Sikh refugees to Afghanistan opposed
Christians live in fear
Source BY JAMES RUPERT Newsday Staff Correspondent July 9, 2006 KABUL, Afghanistan — A few months after U.S. forces helped overthrow the Taliban regime here, a young, educated Afghan eagerly joined the thousands returning from exile to build a new, peaceful, tolerant Afghanistan. The United States had promised its help and pushed a liberal politician,… Continue reading Christians live in fear
Amid faint hope, keeping the faith
Source Thirty years of war, discrimination led by Islamic militants have taken toll on Afghan’s religious minorities BY JAMES RUPERT Newsday World Correspondent July 9, 2006 KABUL, Afghanistan — Zablon Simintov turned from the television one recent Sunday evening to gaze out a window at the darkened sky. “Akhir-i-Shabbat” – “the end of the Sabbath,”… Continue reading Amid faint hope, keeping the faith
Afghan Sikh community dwindles
Source By SSNews, newsday Jul 9, 2006, 20:07 Sado Singh and his family camp out in the desolate ruin of a huge Sikh temple, one of about 10 in Kabul that once hummed with prayer, schooling and festivals. Singh hopes the bulk of Afghan Sikhs, now exiled as refugees in India or the West, may… Continue reading Afghan Sikh community dwindles