Amid the unrest in Afghanistan, the World Punjabi Organisation has urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to evacuate 257 Afghan Hindu and Sikh families from Kabul. International President of World Punjabi Organisation Vikramjit Singh Sahney said it was the need of the hour to bring the Afghan-origin Sikhs and Hindus safely to India as their lives are in grave danger, PTI news agency reported. Sahney had last year sent three chartered flights to evacuate 500 Hindu and Sikh families from Kabul, Ghazni and Jalalabad, and other areas of Afghanistan. The President of the World Punjabi Organisation also requested the home minister to grant citizenship to those who had already come to India under the Citizenship Amendment Act enacted last year. The insurgents have captured much of northern, western and southern Afghanistan in a breakneck offensive less than three weeks before the United States is set to withdraw its last troops.

Source: Mint August 14, 2021 08:02 UTC