Punjab: Jasbir Singh Gill, the parliamentarian from Punjab, on Tuesday sought the intervention of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the evacuation of Sikh families stranded in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
In a letter addressed to PM Modi, he said, "Sikh community is residing in Afghanistan since ages and after the arrival of militancy in the country, there is continuous persecution of community culminating in the 25 March massacre by ISIS. ISIS has taken the responsibility of the attack and has publicly stated that any member of the Sikh community not leaving the country will be killed."
Gill requested PM Modi to get the families airlifted at the earliest as they are living in the shadow of terror and fear.
Earlier, Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh had also urged foreign affairs minister S Jaishankar to bring stranded Sikh families back from war-ravaged Afghanistan to India.
Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Badal and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal also urged PM Modi coordinate with Afghanistan government so that the security of Sikh community be ensured.
On 25 March 2020, gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a Sikh gurdwara in the heart of Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, killing at least 25 worshippers and wounding as many, in one of the deadliest attacks on the minority community in the country, according to a media report.
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