Minority Rights Archives - The Kashmiriyat

July 30 Around 40 lakh people in Assam have been left out of a draft list of citizens released today, and are liable to face deportation if they are unable to prove their citizenship. The state’s National Register of Citizens or NRC has been updated for the first time since 1951 to account for illegal migration from neighbouring Bangladesh. Releasing the updated list, officials underscored that no one would be deported or arrested as this is only a draft. The recount is seen by critics as a move to target Assam’s Muslim population on the pretext of weeding out Bangladeshi migrants. Thousands of central forces are in the state to prevent any unrest over the new list. “Some people are unnecessarily trying to create an atmosphere of fear… This is a draft and not the final list,...

July 02 A suicide bomber in Jalalabad Afghanistan targeted a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan’s president in the eastern city on Sunday, killing at least 19 people. A spokesman for the provincial hospital in Nangarhar, said that 17 out of 19 dead in the attack are from the minority Sikh and Hindu community. Miakhail added that at least 10 of the 20 wounded were also from the same minority community and are undergoing treatment at a Jalalabad hospital. Narendr Singh, one of the wounded Sikh from Sunday’s attack, told The Associated Press by phone from his hospital bed in Jalalabad that the attack targeted their convoy. He cried on the phone worrying what had happened to his father, Avtar Singh Khalsa, who was also in the convoy. Miakhail confirmed t...

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Assam: Around 40 lakh people, Mostly Muslims may Be Deported if Citizenship unproved

17 Hindus and Sikhs Killed in a Suicide Attack in Afghanistan