Following the collapse of Kunduz to Taliban, many Sikhs left the province. Currently only three families are still there, the report said.
Sikhs have lived in Kunduz for over thirty years and at one time there were as many as 40 families in the area.
After the collapse of Kunduz city last year, Del Souz apparently moved his family to India. He stayed on in Kunduz and lived with his uncle.
Close to 99 per cent of Hindu and Sikh in Afghanistan have left the country over the past three decades.
Sikh and Hindu population numbered 220,000 in the 1980’s.
It is now estimated that only 1,350 Hindus and Sikhs remain in the country, the report said.
Hindus and Sikhs suffered huge setbacks after the Taliban regime collapsed in 2001. This forced many of them to leave rural areas and move to Kabul in order to make a living.
In October, a Sikh man was abducted from his home and gunned down by suspected militants in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan.
Sardar Rawail Singh, who lived in Jalalabad, was abducted from his house by militants wearing military fatigues and killed in Khalis Famil area.
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