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While talking to TOI on Sunday evening, an Afghan Muslim national married to an Indian women said, "There are some organizations and the leaders with vested interests who are spreading false news of atrocities being committed on Afghan Hindus , Sikhs as well as Indian Muslims currently stranded there, these are totally false reports and will do us more harm than doing any good to us. Another Afghan Hindu who runs a shop in Kabul said a few people were allegedly brokering their freedom by spreading fake news about them.

In the recent past, the chief commercial officer of a travel and logistics company had written to JP Singh , joint secretary, ministry of external affairs urging to arrange permission of landing in Delhi by the central government. The city has has seen repeated bouts of heavy fighting where the Taliban has made attempts to capture the city.

The emigration figures are serious, with Afghanistan producing significant numbers of refugees — second only to Syria, according to a UNHCR report. Incidents of systematic and institutional discrimination have even made local headlines, although many more go unreported, he says. Singh agrees.

With years of war and internal conflict, the minorities in Afghanistan have fallen through cracks, where even the international and local civil organisations often fail to notice and recognise the plight of the Afghan Hindus and Sikhs. The problem, however, lies in the inadequate systems and institutions that were brought in place post, according to Shayegan. He notes, for example, the example of Article 62 that prohibits non-Muslim Afghans from becoming president of the country.

Furthermore, courts that operate on laws emulating Islamic religious law are sometimes unsuited to the needs of the religious minority populations. Despite the discrimination, Afghan Hindus and Sikh strongly identify with their national identity. In India, we are Afghans. Visit the new DW website Take a look at the beta version of dw. Go to the new dw. More info OK. Wrong language? Change it here DW.

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