Amritsar: Following a series of suicide attacks by the Islamic State at Kabul Airport, Sikh Afghanistan and Hindu protected at Gurdwara Karte Parwan, Kabul, has decided not to leave the airport for the next few days unless the Indian government evacuated them.
When talking to Toi from Kabul, a Afghan Sikh who lost one of his Muslim friends Usman in a bomb attack said that his friend lived around Gurdwara and was killed in a bomb explosion because he was also at the airport who wanted to escape the country.
“We were lucky to have returned to Gurdwara, we will be killed.”, He said.
In particular, a group of around 145 Sikh and Hindu Afghanistan had reached Kabul airport around 8am on Wednesday.
However, because of the alleged confusion created by rescuers and their shootings by the Taliban outside the airport they were forced to return to Gurdwara around 4am on Thursday and at the end of Thursday night the back-to-back explosion shook Kabul airport.
Guljeet Singh, President Gurdwara Teacher Nanak Sahib, Vikaspuri, Delhi, notifies that Sikh and Hindu Afghanistan will not be able to reach the airport except the Taliban allow them, adding to them lucky that they have returned to Gurdwara since suicide bomber exploded near the place where the bus Afghanistan Sikh and Hindu parked.
A source in Afghanistan told that they had not heard anything from Indian savings or from Sikh NGOs who also claimed to work for their evacuation from Kabul.
He said they had a meeting on Friday and decided not to leave Gurdwara for the next five days.
“We will go to the airport only in groups of 10 to 15 people to avoid attention which is also only if the Indian government will turn us on from Kabul,” said the source.
President of the Indian World Forum Puneet Singh Chandhok said, “We waited to hear from the central government to evacuate people who were stranded, not only Hindus and Sikh Afghanistan which must be evacuated from Kabul but also Indians, Nepal and Sri Lanka”.
He, however, told that all Indians and Sikh Afghanistan, and Hindus were safe after the explosion.