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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. [72] 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.
Most of the Afghan Sikhs and Hindus adopted Afghan customs and assimilated into the local culture, speaking Pashto or Dari. [7] However, Punjabi is still spoken by some at home. [10] There have been efforts to teach Punjabi to the younger generation, as it is also the language of Sikh religious texts. [9]
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]
Its culture is strongly tied with elements of Central Asia, [5] [6] which can be seen in the likes of language, cuisine and classical music. Afghan culture is increasingly becoming a dynamic realm of academic study in scholarly terms. [7]
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) grants Indian nationality to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India due to religious persecution from Muslim ...
The Afghan people of all ethnicities are predominantly and traditionally followers of Islam, of whom around 90% are of Sunni and 10% the Shia branch. Other religious minorities include the Afghan Hindus, Afghan Sikhs, Afghan Zoroastrians, Afghan Jews and Afghan Christians. [86]
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 ...