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 ...

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 ...

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.

Gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government said.

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.

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 ...

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.

In 1755-56, bands of Sikhs waylaid the retreating caravans of the Afghan marauder Ahmed Shah Abdali. The Sikh jathas plundered their loot from Delhi and Mathura and retreated into the countryside ...

NEW DELHI, India, December 13 (UNHCR) - Mention Afghan refugees, and most people think of the ethnic Pashtuns in Pakistan or the Tajiks and Hazaras in Iran. But beyond Afghanistan's neighbouring ...