The attack on a temple of Afghanistan’s tiny Sikh network has left one worshiper and a Taliban member dead as well as the unidentified attackers. Sikh temple in Afghan capital Kabul hit via bomb early morning whilst as many as 30 people have been inside. It is the ultimate remaining Sikh temple in Kabul. Community leaders currently expected that simply 140 Sikhs remained within the predominantly Muslim Afghanistan, down from 100,000 in the 1970s.
India, home to the maximum of the world’s Sikh population, stated it became “deeply concerned” at the news of assault. A local reputable, Gornam Singh, advised news sources that Taliban have been not permitting Sikhs to go inside after assault. TV pictures confirmed gray plumes of smoke growing from the region.
Taliban spokesman informed that the attackers had tried to force an automobile weighted down with explosives into the region. However they detonated earlier than they reached their target. Taliban, who took management of Afghanistan a year ago, stated a clearance operation was still underway.
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Reporters began interviewing relatives of sufferers out of doors a clinic whilst Taliban militants stopped their crew, seeking to delete their pictures.
Since the Taliban took power, the USA has seen persevering with assaults via way of means of rival Sunni Muslim militant institution Islamic State. In April, a bomb assault killed 31 people and injured 87 at a Shia Muslim mosque in the town of Mazar-i-Sharif In December. An attack on an army clinic in Kabul killed more than 20 people and injured 16.
Afghanistan once had a thriving Sikh and Hindu population. But years of conflict and instability saw the community drastically shrink in size. By the time the Taliban took power last year, there were only fewer than 300 Sikhs left in Afghanistan. Taliban had assured the community of their rights to remain in Afghanistan. They also assured them to practice their religion, but over the past year, dozens more fled to India.