“We have no choice but to flee this land,” say Afghanistan’s Sikh and Hindu

Afghanistan’s Sikh and Hindu community is the most discriminated identity group in a predominately Muslim majority country. They are a soft-target for terror group such as ISKP which claimed responsibility for the recent deadly attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul. The Sikh and Hindu community of Afghanistan has suffered widespread discrimination in a country—which at this point is preparing to share power with extremist militant Taliban.  

A group of armed terrorists entered a Sikh temple in central Kabul at 07:45 on Wednesday, March 25, while a large crowd of Afghanistan’s Sikh and Hindu community were performing their religious ritual. The armed assailants opened fire at the crowd, killing 26 people including women, children and a Muslim man who was temple keeper, and wounding 08 others.