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Only a handful Hindus, Sikhs left in Afghanistan
Updated On: 27 August, 2023 08:18 AM IST | Kabul | Agencies
Minorities facing severe restrictions; forced to escape
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Taliban celebrates its two-year anniversary of taking over the governemnt on August 15. File Pic/Getty Images
When Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021, there were concerns that some of Afghanistan’s tiny non-Muslim minorities could vanish. Two years on, those fears are becoming realised a media report said. While Afghanistan’s last-known Jew fled the country shortly after the Taliban takeover, the Sikh and Hindu communities are believed to have shrunk to just a handful of families, reported a local channel.
Under the Taliban, Sikhs and Hindus have faced severe restrictions, including on their appearances, and have been banned from marking their religious holidays in public, leaving many with no choice but to escape their homeland,. “I cannot go anywhere freely,” Fari Kaur, one of the last remaining Sikhs in the capital, Kabul said.
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