Sikh-Hindu minority threatens to leave Afghanistan

KABUL if their security is not ensured

A day earlier, at least 25 people were killed and eight others wounded after gunmen attacked a Sikh religious complex in Kabul.

One armed man entered the dharamsala in limits of the 1st police district and the attack began at around 7:45.

Sarbi Singh Khalesa, a resident of Ghazni province, said his uncle and his wife were brutally killed in yesterday attack.

Another blast on Thursday wounded a child near a Sikh crematorium in Kabul.

Condemning the attack on Sikh minority in Kabul, Sarbi Singh said: “The suffering we went through under President Ghani we had never experienced in the past. For how long we shall continue to give sacrifices and see our sisters’ widowed and children orphaned”

A relative of another victim who was unable to control his tears said Hindu and Sikh community lived a difficult life in Afghanistan.

He said last year 19 Sikh and Hindu minority members were killed in Jalalabad and they started leaving Afghanistan since then.

Gangdir Singh Sony, who lost his mother, father, grandfather and uncle in Wednesday attack said: “Sikh and Hindus are under massive pressure in Afghanistan, living in such circumstances is difficult for us, we and our families are not secure therefor we have no other option but to leave this country.”

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