Explosioner vid sikhtempel i Kabul – oklart om skadade

Sikhism in Afghanistan is limited to small populations, primarily in major cities, with the largest numbers of Afghan Sikhs living in Jalalabad, Ghazni, Kabul, and to a lesser extent in Kandahar and Khost. Afghan Sikhs are ethnically Pashtun, Hindkowan or Punjabi and speak Hindko, Pashto, Punjabi, Dari, Hindustani (Urdu-Hindi).Once numbering between 200,000 and 500,000 (1.8% - 4.6% of the national population) in the 1970s, their population in Afghanistan has dwindled since the Afghan wars began.Estimates of their total population (there has been no census in Afghanistan since 1979) have been given as around 1,200 families or 8,000 members in 2013; 1,000 in 2019 (as reported by Afghan Sikh Wolesi Jirga member Narinder Singh Khalsa); and around 70 to 80 families or 700 in 2020 (as reported by Raj Sutaka, a Sikh businessman from Kabul).