KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan’s president in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 19 ...

The Sikh community now numbers fewer than 300 families in Afghanistan, which has only two gurdwaras, or places of worship, one each in Jalalabad and Kabul, the capital, Singh added.

In the late 1980s, there were about 500,000 Sikhs scattered across Afghanistan, many here for generations. The country's Islam was moderate, based on the Sunni Hanafi sect.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up in a city in eastern Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs, officials ...

Fereshta Abbasi, Human Rights Watch March 19, 2025 Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present this testimony on the critical issue of religious freedom in Afghanistan. The human rights of ...

Afghan’s Sikhs and Hindus often live in the same communities in Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar, working as laborers or in the clothes and traditional medicine businesses, said Singh.

The Sikh Coalition has advocated for the resettlement of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus since the 2020 attack. During his presidential campaign, President Joe Biden supported resettlement for these families.

Although a religion-wise break-up was not provided, the lucky ones were obviously Hindus and Sikhs and the unlucky 59,800 were Muslims, given that Afghanistan is 99.7 percent Muslim.

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Thousands of Afghan refugees of Sikh and Hindu faiths have lived in India for over a decade, sharing religious and cultural ties with the local community. For many, naturalised citizenship is often ...