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A delegation of Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan who sought refuge successful India to flight spiritual persecution, and for idiosyncratic safety, implicit antithetic periods of clip met Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi astatine the Afghanistan Embassy connected Monday.
The members projected to instrumentality to Afghanistan lone if the Taliban authorities assured their information and extortion of properties and spiritual places, said Guljeet Singh, president of Gurudwara Guru Nanak Sahib Ji, Manohar Nagar, Delhi. He was among the 15 radical who met Mr. Muttaqi, presently connected a week-long sojourn to India.
Mr. Singh said that the exodus of the number assemblage from Afghanistan to India started successful 1992 and presently astir 5,000 Sikhs and Hindus from determination unrecorded successful India.
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He said that each the 276 Sikhs who were evacuated by India connected exigency visas station the Taliban takeover successful August 2021, migrated to Canada aft arriving here. “Since Canada was offering asylum to radical from Afghanistan, they each moved determination aft being evacuated by the Indian government,” Mr. Singh told The Hindu. The gathering lasted 45-50 minutes, helium said.
Mr. Singh said the delegation had sought clip to conscionable Mr. Muttaqi chiefly to rise the contented of extortion of spiritual places.
“The Minister was keen that the Afghan Sikhs and Hindus instrumentality to their state but it is not imaginable unless the information is guaranteed. Around 20-25 Sikhs are inactive successful Afghanistan who are determination to support the gurudwaras. There are conscionable 2 Hindu families there,” helium said.
Puneet Singh Chandhoke, president of the India World Forum, which assists the Afghan assemblage successful India, said the delegation informed Mr. Muttaqi astir the past of Hindus and Sikhs successful Afghanistan and their existent demography.
“The members requested the Minister to facilitate the sojourn of a associated delegation of salient Hindus and Sikhs leaders from India to Afghanistan for the restoration and attraction of humanities gurdwaras and temples. A petition was made that arsenic during the erstwhile authorities erstwhile minorities were fixed practice successful the government, astatine slightest 2 persons each from the Hindu and Sikh assemblage should beryllium appointed successful high-ranking positions successful the Afghanistan government,” Mr. Chandhoke said.
It was besides suggested by the members that the authorities should see appointing Afghan Hindus oregon Sikhs astatine their ngo successful India to fortify the bilateral relations.
“The Minister was requested to guarantee restoration of spot rights and property of minorities which person been occupied. He was asked to contented directive to each provinces successful Afghanistan to supply due information and assistance for attraction of gurdwaras and temples,” helium added.
