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New Afghan law allows mothers’ names on children’s ID cards

19/09/202009/10/2020

National identity cards in Afghanistan will carry a person’s mother’s name alongside that of the father following the latest decree signed into law by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The move comes after years of campaigning by Afghan women seeking greater […]

#Afghan Hindu Sikhs#Afghanistan#Daesh#ISIS#Kabul#Religion

For Afghan Sikhs, it’s between violence and exodus – The Hindu

28/03/202015/04/2020

A brutal attack on Wednesday targeting a 400-year-old gurdwara in Kabul claimed 25 lives, including two minors and three women, further terrorising Afghanistan’s already dwindling minority Sikh community. “They had gathered for the morning prayers organised specifically for the nation […]

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Solidarity for Sikhs after Afghanistan massacre – Al Jazeera

26/03/202015/04/2020

Kabul, Afghanistan – The sounds of cries – some loud, many stifled – fill the halls of the Karte Parwan Gurudwara, one of only three remaining places of worship for the small Afghan Sikh and Hindu community in the capital of […]

#Afghan Food#Afghanistan#Conflict#Daesh#Food#ISIS#Kabul#Peace Process#Ramazan 2019#Religion#Taliban#Women

Over iftar, Afghan Hazara family talk ISIS threat and Taliban return

16/05/201910/05/2020

As the sun set, we hurried through the streets of Dasht-e-Barchi on the western edge of Kabul. Our host, 40-year old Baqir Sangari, had called several times to check the instructions to his house in the largely Hazara Shiite community. […]

#Fake news#India#Religion

Indian Academics Confront the Threat of Nationalistic Pseudoscience

10/12/201812/12/2018

N 1920, Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician, succumbed to what was probably amoebic dysentery at the age of 32. But even though his lifespan was short, Ramanujan’s work continues to influence mathematics today — from number theory and infinite series to continued fractions […]

#Afghan Hindu Sikhs#Afghanistan#Elections#Religion

Afghanistan Sikh, Hindu community brave danger to vote

20/10/201831/10/2018

Narendra Singh Khalsa is country’s only minority candidate and expected to win

#Afghanistan#Archive#Conflict#Daesh#ISIS#Nangarhar#Religion

A blow to the last vestiges of pluralism

14/07/201831/10/2018

For many within Afghanistan’s once-thriving Sikh and Hindu communities, the attack in Jalalabad city on July 1, claimed by the Islamic State (IS), came as a final blow to the plurality of the Afghan society. Fourteen of their compatriots were […]

#Afghanistan#Archive#Conflict#History#Profile#Religion

‘We Belong to Afghanistan’

06/07/201831/10/2018

Rawail Singh believed in a peaceful future for Sikhs like him in his homeland — and died for it.

#Afghanistan#Archive#Features#History#Kabul#Religion

Afghan Hindus and Sikhs celebrate Diwali without ‘pomp and splendour’ amid fear

19/10/201723/04/2018

Festivities in Kabul are far simpler and more sombre than Diwali celebrations in other parts of the world, a reflection of two minority communities eager to remain discreet

#Afghanistan#Archive#Conflict#Features#History#Religion

The decline of Afghanistan’s Hindu and Sikh communities

01/01/201726/06/2017

I am an Afghan first… But if our life is under threat, if our families are faced with risks, we have to leave.”

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