Amritsar, Punjab: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Avtar Singh Makkar has condemned the recent killing of a Sikh trader by terrorists in Mardan town of the Khyber area of Pakistan. In a statement on Friday, Makkar said it was unfortunate ...
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Afghanistan: A Sikh leader in Afghanistan said today that he was trying to contact families over reports that 35 stowaways found in a shipping container in Britain were from the tiny, persecuted community. Staff at Tilbury Docks near London discovered ...
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London, UK: The Sikh families found in a shipping container in Britain were fleeing persecution in Afghanistan and had been trapped in darkness without fresh air for 18 hours, their translator said Monday. The group, discovered at Tilbury Docks, east of ...
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Kabul, Afghanistan: The Sikhs of Afghanistan are one of the world’s smallest and most vulnerable minorities. Numbering no more than a few hundred families, they have endured persecution both from the Taliban and wider society in a country that is 99 per ...
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