Ex­press­ing heart­felt con­do­lences with the fam­i­lies of 25 Sikhs killed in the at­tack on the Sikh San­gat at the 400-year old Gur­d­wara Pathshahi  Satvin -Guru Har Rai Sahib in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sikh po­lit­i­cal body Dal Khalsa has sought set­tle­ment of the Sikhs at an ap­pro­pri­ate place of their choice while con­demn­ing the mer­ce­nary pol­i­tics of the right-wing Mus­lim fa­natic bod­ies.

TERMING IT AS A HEINOUS ACT OF IN­HU­MAN SAV­AGERY, DAL KHALSA strongly con­demned the ter­ror strike at the Gur­d­wara com­plex in Afghanistan, killing 25 in­no­cent Sikh wor­ship­pers.  Party Spokesper­son Kan­war Pal Singh said that “our heart goes out to the vic­tims of the das­tardly act.”

To avoid fur­ther ca­su­al­ties, Sikhs can move to Pe­shawar in Pak­istan as refugees on a tem­po­rary ba­sis since Pak­istan has thou­sands of Afghan refugees un­der its pro­tec­tion.  Kan­war Pal Singh said, “I am sure that the Im­ran Khan gov­ern­ment can help Sikhs on hu­man­i­tar­ian grounds.”

SGPC and other Sikh or­gan­i­sa­tions, es­pe­cially in the Di­as­pora should come for­ward to help these fam­i­lies in all ways in­clud­ing their set­tle­ment at safer places, when­ever pos­si­ble at the ear­li­est un­der the pre­sent cir­cum­stances.

“It seems that Sikhs have to pay a price for their vul­ner­a­bil­ity and the vi­cious de­signs of the ISIS and other mil­i­tant forces.”

“It is strange that the at­tack came a day af­ter the United States an­nounced to cut its aid to the Afghan gov­ern­ment by $1 bil­lion over frus­tra­tions that feud­ing po­lit­i­cal lead­ers could not reach an agree­ment and form a team to ne­go­ti­ate with the Tal­iban.”

Dal Khalsa in its re­lease has stated that the ISIS has its own in­ter­pre­ta­tion of Is­lam which is not shared by a large sec­tion of Mus­lims world­wide.

Kan­war Pal Singh opined that “It seems that Sikhs have to pay a price for their vul­ner­a­bil­ity and the vi­cious de­signs of the ISIS and other mil­i­tant forces. Yes­ter­day’s mas­sacre of Sikhs is a fall­out of the power strug­gle go­ing on in Afghanistan es­pe­cially ever since the US signed a peace deal with the Tal­iban. This is the sec­ond time in re­cent times that they have been tar­geted in a bru­tal way by ISIS mil­i­tants.”

He ques­tioned whether “the Afghan Sikhs have been made a scape­goat in the deeper de­sign of ma­jor world play­ers op­er­at­ing in Afghanistan.”

“It is test­ing time for Afghani Sikhs and their fel­low-Sikhs,” he added.