Cong sheds crocodile tears for Hindu-Sikhs in war-torn Afghanistan.

Now, Congress leaders demand evacuation of Hindus, Sikhs in the danger of Talibans in Afghanistan.

Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | Aug 10, 2021::  At last congress has noticed the plight of Hindus and Sikhs in Talibali surge in Afghanistan in recent. Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill on Monday wrote to External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar demanding the immediate evacuation of Hindus and Sikhs from war-torn Afghanistan.

In his letter, Shergill said his love for his own people of Indian origin has compelled him to take up the matter with Jaishankar.

“As you are more than aware, the Taliban offensive has escalated in Afghanistan, post-U.S. withdrawal of troops, and they are fighting at gun point to turn the country, once again into a hub for transnational terrorism,” he said in his letter.

“The current catastrophic trajectory of violence has caused a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, thus, risking the lives of the people,including those from India,” he also said.

According to the information available in public domain, 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, he said.

The Congress leader cited cited several instances of attacks on minorities of Indian origin, including the recent act of the Taliban removing “Nishan Sahib” from a gurudwara located in Chamkani Area of Paktia, killing of 25 Sikhs during an attack on Gurudwara Har Rai Sahib in Kabul, the suicide attack in Jalalabad in July, 2018 in which 19 Sikhs and Hindus were killed.

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“These people, fearing for their lives, have appealed to the Government of India for their immediate evacuation,” he said.

The Taliban has been making rapid advances across Afghanistan by resorting to widespread violence since the United States began withdrawing its troops from the country on May 1.

The U.S. has already pulled back the majority of its forces and is looking to complete the draw down by August 31.

India has been supporting a national peace and reconciliation process that is Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled.

Though, it is like shedding crocodile tears and obviously peculiar that the pseudo-secular never minded any persecution of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan and Afghanistan and unbelievable torture on Bengali Hindus in Islamic Bangladesh by the radical Islamists in those countries, in a first Congress picked up the issues of minority Hindu-Sikhs in Afghanistan as to notch the BJP’s CAA (Citizen Amendment Act) and its relevance accordingly.

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__Inputs from PTI & Republic TV.