Congress Leader Jaiveer Shergill Seek Removal Of Indian-Origin People From Afghanistan.
Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill said that around 650 Sikhs and 50 Hindus are stuck in Afghanistan and have become sitting targets for the Taliban “adamant to kill minorities belonging to Indian origin”.
With the Taliban making headways in Afghanistan, Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill today kept in touch with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioning for the prompt departure of Hindus and Sikhs from the conflict torn country.
“My adoration for my own kin” has constrained me to take up the matter with your regarded Office, Mr Shergill, who is additionally the Congress’ National Spokesperson, said as he mentioned the public authority to likewise give financial security to individuals of Indian-beginning who have been influenced by the conflict.
Mr Shergill said that around 650 Sikhs and 50 Hindus are stuck in Afghanistan and have become sitting focuses for the Taliban “resolved to kill minorities having a place with Indian beginning”.
“The various scenes of assaults on minorities of Indian beginning, particularly the new dishonorable demonstration of Taliban eliminating “Nishan Sahib” (Sikh blessed banner) from the sacred Gurdwara situated in Paktia, killing of 25 Sikhs during the assault on Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib in Kabul, the self destruction assault in Jalalabad on first July, 2018 in which 19 Sikhs and Hindus were killed are living declaration of the way that Afghanistan is as of now not a protected country for Indian beginning Hindus-Sikhs,” he said in the two-page letter.
The Congress chief encouraged the public authority to consider giving exceptional visas to the around 700 individuals of Indian beginning as done in the year 2020.
“I likewise demand that since these individuals have lost their occupation, the Government of India may likewise give them monetary security,” he said.
The Taliban fixed the noose around northern Afghanistan Sunday, catching three more common capitals as they take their battle to the urban areas subsequent to holding onto a large part of the wide open lately.
The extremists have grabbed up five commonplace capitals in Afghanistan since Friday in a lightning hostile that seems to have overpowered government powers.
In the eastern region of Paktia, the agitators had eliminated Nishan Sahib from the top of a Gurdwara. It was reestablished later get-togethers censured its evacuation.
The speed of Taliban headway comes as the US starts the withdrawal of its powers from Afghanistan. The withdrawal of unfamiliar powers is expected to be finished toward the finish of this current month, in front of the twentieth commemoration of the September 11 assaults on the United States that started the intrusion which brought down the Taliban.
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