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As per the 2017 data, more than 99% of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus have left the country in the last 3 decades. [71] Many of Afghan Hindus and Sikhs have been settled in Germany, France, United States, Australia, India, Belgium, the Netherlands and other nations. [4] The Afghan Hindu population declined to approximately 50 in 2020. [4]
Sikhs in Afghanistan continue to face problems, with the issue of the Sikh custom of cremation figuring prominently. In September 2013, Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed a legislative decree, reserving a seat in the National Assembly of Afghanistan for the Hindu and Sikh minority. [45] However this decree was blocked by the parliament.
Afghan Sikh history is considered to stretch back 200 to 500 years. [6] [7] Not all Sikhs are of Punjabi origin however; a small minority include locals whose ancestors adopted Sikhism during Guru Nanak's 15th century expeditions to Kabul. [7] In the 18th century, Hindu Khatri merchants from Punjab settled in Afghanistan and dominated regional ...
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The inscription says that this "great and beautiful image of Mahāvināyaka" was consecrated by the Hindu Shahi King "Khingala". [1] Kabul was the capital of the great Hindu Shahi kings. Afghanistan was a great center of Vedic culture. There were many Hindu temples in Afghanistan. Some temples in Kabul have survived the recent turmoil.
Historically, the Southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan had long periods of Hindu-Buddhist predominance. There are about 1,300 Afghan Sikhs [40] [41] and a little over 600 Hindus [42] living in different cities but mostly in Kabul, Jalalabad, and Ghazni. [43] [44] Senator Awtar Singh was the only Sikh in Afghanistan's parliament of 2010. [45]
There were thousands of Sikhs living in Kabul before the Soviet–Afghan War and Afghan Civil War (1992–1996). Many of them fled among the Afghan refugees in the 1980s and 1990s to India and neighboring Pakistan. [1] [2] [3] After the American military involvement and the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001, some of them decided to ...
Other religious groups, mainly Hindus, Sikhs, Baha'is and Christians, together constitute less than 0.3 percent of the population. There were a few hundred Ahmadiyya Muslims and no Jews in the country. [7] In March 2015, a 27-year-old Afghan woman was murdered by a mob in Kabul over false allegations of burning a copy of the Qur'an. [8]