Month Since Escaping Taliban, Refugee Afghan Sikhs Uncertain About Future
Around 300 people, including Sikhs, are still stuck in Kabul, Ghazni and Jalalabad, and are desperate to leave the country. Baldeep Singh, an Afghan Sikh, who fled to India after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, knows three languages, including Hindi and French, but has been having a hard time finding a job to feed his family. This is the case not only with Sikhs who arrived in the midst of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, but also those who left the country before, said the 24-year-old, who is at present living in New Mahavir Nagar. The Taliban swept across Afghanistan last month, seizing control of almost all key towns and cities in the backdrop of withdrawal of the US forces that began on May 1. It took over Kabul on August 15 and unveiled a hardline interim government. This is not the first time that Baldeep Singh has left Afghanistan. On March 25 last year, his mother was killed in a terrorist attack while she was outside their room at Kabul's ...