New Delhi (NVI): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today requested the central government to evacuate from Afghanistan a “large number” of Sikh families, who want to leave the country at the earliest.
“Dear Dr S. Jaishankar, there are a large number of Sikh families who want to be flown out of Afghanistan. Request you to get them airlifted at the earliest. In this moment of crisis, it’s our bounden duty to help them,” Singh said in a tweet addressed to the External Affairs Minister.
He did not elaborate on the identity of those wanting to leave Afghanistan.
However, it comes against the backdrop of a terror attack on a Sikh shrine in Kabul on March 28, in which 25 people were killed.
The next day, terrorists detonated a bomb near a crematorium in Kabul where the last rites of the victims of the shrine attack were to be performed.
The Punjab Chief Minister had strongly condemned the attack on the Gurdwara in Kabul.
