In a major disappointment to tiny Pashtun Sikh community in Pakistan & entire diaspora around the world, a Sikh shopkeeper was shot dead in Peshawar of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province of Pakistan on 31st March. Dayal Singh, who belongs to Pashtun Sikh community, was shot dead around 3.30pm. This heinous incident came a day after the killing of a ...
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A Sikh student from India was attacked by a group of unknown men who ripped off his turban and dragged him across the sidewalk by his hair in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Gagandeep Singh, 21, was swarmed and beaten near Highway 97 and McCurdy Road in Kelowna after he got off a transit bus on March 17.Gagandeep was heading home after g ...
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Sikh employees are now required to shave their facial hair at California Department of Corrections staff members. The notice issued mentioning that regardless of any religious or medical reasons employees may have for keeping it, they need to shave off their facial hair. On this development, civil rights advocates say this policy change disproporti ...
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A 40-year-old Sikh woman died in Canada after being stabbed multiple times at her home in Surrey, British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said. The homicide investigators identified the victim as 40-year-old Harpreet Kaur and her husband, arrested earlier, is also aged 40.
These incidents have a significant impact, not ...
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A 21-year-old Canadian-Sikh woman identified as Pawanpreet Kaur from Brampton has been shot dead. According to the police, It appears as "targeted" killing in Canada's Ontario province. The victim was fatally shot by an unidentified assailant on 3rd December night in Mississauga city of Ontario province. As per eyewitness gunman pointed the gun at ...
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In continuation with the hate crimes against Sikhs in foreign land, another tragic incident took place in Wolverhampton, Central England on October 30, 2022. Anakh Singh, 59, was found with serious injuries in Nine Elms Lane of the city while on duty as a driver for a private hire taxi company and died of his injuries. Singh was a private hire driv ...
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In an another major attempt to hurt the religious sentiments & targeting Sikh minorities, authorities demolishes Gurdwara Chubcha Sahib in Lahore, Punjab Province of Pakistan. Gurudwara building was very old & local Sikh community faith was attached to it. It was demolished by a team of district authorities citing safety concerns in the locality. A ...
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Abduction and death of four family members including 8 month old baby girl let the whole India & US in grief. Jasdeep Singh(36), his wife Jasleen Kaur(27), their daughter Aroohi and brother Amandeep Singh(38) were kidnapped on 3rd oct from the family's trucking business in Merced, California, and their bodies were discovered on 5th Oct in the remot ...
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In the city of Liecester in England, three schoolboys followed, punched & pulled off the turban of few people. In another incident of hate crime, The Atlantic in the United States, a Sikh man waited outside a burger shop to wish his cousin on his Birthday. But a stranger came up against him shouting profanities. He threw a drink at his face and ...
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RICHMOND HILL, Queens (WABC) - A 75-year-old Sikh man was attacked on an early morning walk in Queens.
The assault, police say was unprovoked, and left him with a broken nose and severe bruising.
"He was just walking and he came from behind and hit him in the face," Nirmal Singh's translator Harpreet Singh Toor said. Harpreet who is chairman of ...
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Satnam Singh, 45, was shot four times in his shop in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtukhwa province, on Sept. 30 afternoon.
The incident took place on Thursday when the attackers entered the clinic of Satnam Singh, a Hakeem (physician), and shot at him.
Singh was rushed to the provincial capital's Lady Reading Hospital in an injured condition where he late ...
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A Sikh Gurdwara in Floral Park was vandalized earlier this week, and Nassau County police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
According to police, someone broke into the temple, located at 383 Jericho Turnpike, between 6:30 p.m. Monday and 5:41 p.m. Tuesday.
The vandalism, which is being investigated by the county department’s Wi ...
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Surrey RCMP are investigating after a Sikh truck driver’s turban was knocked off during an apparent assault earlier this month.
Jagdeep Singh is from Saskatchewan and was driving his semi near the area of 128 Street and 80th Avenue, when he was involved in a fender bender. He says he got out of his truck to exchange insurance information with th ...
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A racist coward hurled abuse at a Sikh schoolboy and beat the youngster’s friend with a stick.
His behaviour left school pupils “absolutely terrified”, a court heard.
Dickeson, 48, admitted assaulting a 15-year-old boy in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, on October 2, 2019.
He also admitted threatening or abusive behaviour aggravated by religious and ra ...
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The 32-year-old victim, Sumit Ahluwalia was working at the hotel on Osborn Street in Brownsville on Monday morning, April 26, when the man got into an argument with him and two other employees.
Ahluwalia said the man attacked him with a hammer, at his workplace, the Quality Inn at 120 Osborn St. in Brownsville.
"He got mad - through the front des ...
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A group of Sikh men say they were attacked by thugs because they were wearing turbans.
Harrowing CCTV footage, which can be seen in the video, shows the men fleeing a gang who smashed up their car with bats and hammers while they were still inside. ...
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On April 29, 2020, Lakhwant Singh (61) was brutally attacked at the store he owns with his wife in Lakewood, Colorado when Eric Breemen entered the store and began harassing the couple, the Sikh Coalition said.
The attacker, Eric Breeman (36), entered the store Mr. Singh owns with his wife, and began harassing them. He damaged numerous items in th ...
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Harnek Singh, 53, is Punjabi talkback radio host in Auckland. He was was critically injured in a violent attack in a south Auckland suburb and was taken to Middlemore Hospital for surgery.
Around 10.20pm, while returning home from the day’s broadcast on Glenross Drive, Singh was stabbed multiple times with a sharp weapon.
Sukhminder Singh, a fami ...
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A priest suffered serious burns due to the blast, which took place after a wedding party on April 16, 2016. Two other people were also injured by shards of glass.
The bomb, crafted from a fire extinguisher packed with explosive chemicals, also destroyed the entrance to the temple.
Police say 16-year-olds with links to Islamic extremism have ‘part ...
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Balwinder Jit Singh, a sikh bus operator for the Los Angeles Country transit authority was brutally attacked by a bus passenger who called him a “terrorist” and “suicide bomber” and accused him of hijacking the bus.
According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, KC Tard Jr., 34, faces one felony count of battery with injury on tra ...
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Police investigating a "petrol bomb" attack on a Sikh temple in Edinburgh say it is not known if it was a random or targeted incident.
The doors to the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Sheriff Brae were set alight around 5am on Tuesday. Firefighters extinguished the fire at the front door. No one was injured but there is said to be significant smoke damage ...
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An attack by secondary school students in Telford is being treated as a hate crime, police have said.
During the fight, the boys put the victim in a headlock and his turban is left hanging off.
Others boys are heard laughing as the boy is pushed to the ground, pinned down and punched repeatedly.
Charlton School in Telford, Shropshire, confirmed ...
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A 20-year-old Sikh man was kicked out of an overnight queue to watch the Wimbledon tennis championships as he apparently made other people around him "uncomfortable".
Govindpal Kooner took to Facebook last week to voice his anger at being thrown out and claimed it was an act of racism, cases of which have reported a rise in the wake of Britain's v ...
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London: A 47-year-old Sikh man and his son were held at gunpoint and handcuffed by the UK police in southern England after someone complained about hearing a gunshot — which was actually his car's tyre blowing.
Sukhi Rayat parked his car in his yard in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Shortly after a dozen armed policemen with dogs ran into his garden, th ...
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A 74-year-old Sikh volunteer who was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Derby was "an uplifting" community leader, his friends and family say.
Satnam Singh was found injured on Friday morning near the Sikh temple where he worked as a volunteer.
Detectives are trying to trace a dark hatchback car seen in the area.
Gurpal Singh of the National Si ...
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May 24, 2009: Six men attacked a Sikh temple in Vienna, killing the leader of the Sikh sect and injuring more than a dozen people.
Worshippers used a frying pan and microphone stands during the attack to fend off attackers carrying knives and a handgun.
As disturbances sparked by the fatal shooting spread to many northern Indian cities, India's t ...
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An Indian-origin hotel housekeeper whose body had been discovered from a wasteland near Heathrow airport in west London last November was raped and murdered by a homeless stranger, a UK court was told on Wednesday.
Pardeep Kaur had been reported missing on October 17, 2016, by a relative after she did not come home from work.
The 30-year-old’s mi ...
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The family of Hardeep Singh Deol, a 24-year-old youth who was stabbed to death by a girl at Christchurch in New Zealand on Christmas Day, is distraught over the delay in the arrival of his body at his native Rania town in Haryana's Sirsa district.
The family has contacted the Indian High Commission in New Zealand as well as the New Zealand High Co ...
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Gurpreet Singh, 21, was killed and his friend was seriously injured when a car allegedly hit their bike in the small hours of Monday after an argument with the vehicle’s driver in Safdarjung Enclave.
Gurpreet and his 22-year-old friend Maninder Singh had gone near the AIIMS to film a documentary on pavement dwellers in New Delhi on September 19. W ...
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Inder Singh and his brother Kirti Singh Rana were walking towards their house in Chembur when they were attacked with sticks, daggers, and swords. In a video, the victim’s brother has stated that he had only asked the group of men to wear masks for their safety. Inder Singh sustained critical injuries. In the viral video, one can see deep stab woun ...
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A video has gone viral which has outraged the Sikh community all over the nation. The video shows a Sikh man’s turban pulled, being pushed, shoved off by the police in Kolkata during a protest march by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing.
The man has been identified as Balvinder Singh, who is the personal security guard of BJP leader Priyanshu ...
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NEW YORK – A teenager was arrested for a bias crime after violating a Sikh student's religious beliefs by forcibly removing the sobbing victim's turban and chopping his hair off in a high school bathroom, authorities said Friday.
Umair Ahmed, 17, of Queens, was charged with three counts under hate crime statutes: unlawful imprisonment, menacing an ...
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Mandeep Kaur, a student of electrical engineering at the Islamic University of Science and Technology at Awantipora in Pulwama district, was attacked by two unidentified assailants on 2 July while she was waiting to board a bus to the university. After which she was rushed to nearest hospital.
Mandeep has also alleged that she has been repeatedly ...
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The anti-Sikh massacre of 1984 refers to a series of organised pogroms against members of the Sikh community across India by anti-Sikh mobs in response to the assassination of then prime minister (PM) Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards at her residence.
After the assassination of Indira on October 31, 1984, anti-Sikh riots erupted in some areas ...
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After months of standoff between India’s government and Sikh dissidents, the Indian army attacked those dissidents who had taken refuge in the holiest Sikh shrine — the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, India — on 6 June 1984. The fight left hundreds dead and more captured. The attack also enraged many Sikhs across India, which would have fatal consequen ...
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Nirmal Singh, 54, was one of the four Sikh men who were assaulted by a mob at Chainpura village in Ajmer district of Rajasthan on April 24. A video of the act went viral on social media, causing national outrage.
Singh’s only tryst with charity ended in such a nightmarish way that he feels that he will never try to help anyone for the rest of his ...
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New York: An elderly Sikh man in the US was filmed while sleeping on a flight by a co-passenger who posted the video online with a title 'Would You Feel Safe' and a description that says "flying with bin laden."
Darshan Singh, who was traveling on a Jetblue flight from New York to California in November, didn't exchange words with the man sitting ...
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Parmjit Singh, 64, was brutally stabbed to death while walking in his neighborhood in Tracy, in the Central Valley east of San Francisco. Singh, was wearing his traditional turban when he was killed. A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with his killing.
According to CBS Sacramento, the attack happened Sunday around 9 p.m. in the area ...
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The death of a 25-year-old Sikh man in Pakistan has turned out to be a “contract killing”, according to police, who have arrested his fiancee, who did not want to marry him.
On Saturday, Parvinder Singh was shot dead by unidentified gunmen weeks before his marriage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. His killing drew sharp condemnation from India whic ...
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An intruder at the Sikh Temple Modesto Ceres broke windows late Thursday at a priest’s home on temple grounds, punched the priest, shouted obscenities and told him to go back to his own country before fleeing, according to the priest and others associated with the temple.
Amarjit Singh, with the help of temple members who translated some of his co ...
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Two unidentified men brutally assaulted a 71-year-old Sikh man in Manteca, California. This is the second attack on a Sikh community member in about a week.
Disturbing footage from a surveillance camera shows Sahib Singh Natt walking alone on the side of a road early morning on August 6 in Manteca, California when two men, wearing hoodies, walkin ...
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Police today opened fire on Sikhs who had gathered at a Gurudwara Sahib in Gurdaspur to prevent right-wing Hindu organization Shiv Sena from burning the effigy of Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Sikh political prisoner who is on death row.
“A youth was killed and another person injured when police allegedly fired to disperse a group of persons assem ...
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Akali Dal leader and (DSGMC) member Manjeet Singh GK was attacked on Saturday outside a Gurdwara in California in the USA. Manjeet's face was also blackened in the attack.
Three people have been arrested in connection with the attack.
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Recalling the incident, Manjeet said that despite the attack, he urged his aides not to disrup ...
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A Sikh man was stabbed to death at his store in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the third incident targeting the minority Sikh community in the country in three weeks.
Terlok Singh was discovered dead by his cousin on Thursday in his store with an apparent stab wound in the chest.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s office is calling the incident a homic ...
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Surjit Singh Malhi, 50, was ambushed, beaten up multiple times by two white men who yelled racial slurs at him in the US.
Singh said he was putting out political signs for US representative Jeff Denham, a Republican running for re-election, near his home in California when he was attacked by the two men who yelled racial slurs that “You’re not wel ...
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A gurdwara in the US state of California has been vandalized with hate messages scrawled on its walls, including one calling for ”nuking” Sikhs.
The incident took place at the Vermont Gurdwara in Los Angeles, also known as the Hollywood Sikh Temple.
A witness confronted the vandal and caught him on cell phone footage walking away from the gurdwar ...
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Simranjit Singh, 21, was killed by four bullet wounds to the chest. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, another employee – who is not being named – was cleaning up the parking lot around the station, and allegedly got into an altercation with three intoxicated men who were loitering on the premises.
One of the men allegedly pu ...
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A Sikh man was shot at and wounded in his driveway in Kent, Washington, by a masked assailant who then called out to him to “go back to your own country”, a variation of the last words Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla heard at a bar in Olathe, Kansas, last month in a hate-crime murder that shook up both the US and India.
The Kent shooting took ...
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A Pakistani Sikh has been beheaded after being kidnapped in the country's tribal north-west, officials say. Jaspal Singh was seized while traveling in Khyber district a month ago. His body was found on Sunday.
Earlier reports that a second kidnapped Sikh, Mastan Singh, had been beheaded are not confirmed, officials now say.
Unidentified gunmen de ...
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It is an iconic American experience, a first long-distance trip in a Greyhound bus through parts of the south-west made famous by Route 66.
When Daljeet Singh took the journey, though, he saw an altogether more dystopian vision of America: one in which it feels like a prejudiced and paranoid place where to be perceived as “Arabic” is to be viewed ...
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Maan Singh Khalsa 41, was stopped at a red light in Richmond, Calif., when, authorities say, a group of white men in a pickup truck began to attack him, completely unprovoked.
One of the men threw a beer can at Khalsa’s car while cursing and yelling at him. At the next red light, Khalsa’s head was pulled out of the window of his car, his turban wa ...
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Soran Singh (died 22 April 2016) was a Pakistani Sikh doctor, TV anchor, politician and Minister of Minorities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Before joining Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 2011.
He was gunned down in a targeted attack near his house on Friday, 22 April 2016. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police later arrested Baldev Kumar, who allegedly orchestrated Sin ...
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Sikhs in the north Indian state of Punjab have expressed anger at an attack on a Sikh shrine in Pakistan.
More than 100 students threw stones at the Gurdwara shrine, birthplace of the founder of Sikhism, at Nankana Sahib, west of Lahore, on Saturday.
They were protesting at the conversion of a college building at the site into a residential hall ...
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A Sikh law student in the U.K. felt “victimized” after he was evicted from a bar because he was wearing a turban, media reports said.
Amrik Singh, 22, claimed that he was ordered to leave Rush Late Bar in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on Friday for wearing his religious headgear, BBC reported.
Singh claims he was ordered to leave Rush Late Bar in M ...
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55. USA | Newly-opened Sikh temple property is vandalized with swastikas and graffiti (Jan 13, 2020)
ORANGEVALE, Calif. — In a span of just 48 hours, the people who attended a newly-opened Sikh temple in Orangevale went from celebrating its launch to having to deal with racist graffiti.
But as members of the temple say, it's hateful acts like that that only make their community stronger.
"Everybody is coming together,” said Dimple Bhullar, a vol ...
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The police in Buena Park, Calif., said on Wednesday that they had opened a hate crimes investigation into the vandalism of a Sikh house of worship after its members found expletive-laced graffiti referencing Islam and the Islamic State just days after the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
The graffiti was discovered on Sunday morning on the walls o ...
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A 78-year-old Sikh man was assaulted while he waited to pick up his grandson from Warren Middle School in Bakersfield, California.
An unknown assailant threw an apple with great force at Mr. Gian Singh, hitting his turban. The police have not yet identified or apprehended the individual.
Mr. Singh, who picks his grandson up from school every da ...
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Unknown attackers shot dead a veteran Sikh peace activist known for his active contribution to interfaith harmony in Pakistan's militancy-hit northwest.
Charanjeet Singh, 44, was in his grocery shop on May 29 when gunmen on motorcyclists opened fire at him and sped away in Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. He died on his way to Lad ...
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — Shah Noor, a recent transplant to California from Maryland, was driving through a nearby community one evening with his wife and stopped at a 7-Eleven to get some milk.
A police car pulled up with lights flashing. Officers walked to their car and grilled them for 45 minutes. They were aggressive, he said, and asked what they w ...
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A Sikh American man says he was taunted as a “terrorist” and “bin Laden” by another driver this week, and then beaten unconscious in his car. Police in the Chicago suburb of Darien are investigating the alleged incident as a hate crime and a road rage incident that escalated into a violent attack, Chief Ernest Brown said.
Inderjit Singh Mukker, a ...
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Dr. Prabhjot Singh, a Professor of International and public affairs at Columbia University, was attacked and injured by few Americans on the night of September 21. They yelled, among other things, “Osama” and “terrorist”, before attacking Dr. Singh.
Dr. Singh who is a Sikh by Religion was walking around 8PM in the Harlem neighbourhood area along ...
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On August 5, 2012, a mass shooting took place at the gurdwara (Sikh temple) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, United States where 40-year-old Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people and wounded four others. A seventh victim died of his wounds in 2020. Page committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after he was shot in the hip by a responding polic ...
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In yet another case of atrocity on Sikhs in Pakistan, a 17-year-old girl named Bulbul Kaur, who is the daughter of Granthi of Gurdwara Panja Sahib Preetam Singh, was abducted 15 days ago by two Muslim men in Panja Saheb of Pakistan.
There is no news of Bulbul since then and her family is worried thinking that she may also be forced like Jagjit Kau ...
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Two Sikh women in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have filed a court case against alleged threats and harassment on social media. In the complaint, filed under 22A of Pakistan Penal Code on Wednesday, the plaintiffs alleged Shah Alam Masih and Manmeet Kaur from Christian Colony Shoba Chowk in Peshawar were sending them intimidating messages ...
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On 25 March 2020, suicide bombers and assailants armed with guns attacked the Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib (a Sikh shrine) in Kabul, Afghanistan.
About 200 worshipers were reported to have been in the building, in which 25 Sikh worshippers were killed and leaving at least 8 wounded after an hour-long siege which ended in all assailants being killed by ...
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Sixty-year-old Sachdeva was kidnapped on 17 June 2020 when he was visiting the historically important Tala Sahib Gurudwara in Chamkani for voluntary work, better known as Sewa. The said Gurudwara has an emotional attachment for the Sikh community since Guru Nanak Dev visited the place during his journey across the globe.
Intelligence sources revea ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ Members of the Sikh minority gathered today to pray for 22 people who were killed when rebel rockets hit a Sikh Temple in the besieged city of Jalalabad.
Sikhs who were brought by government helicopter to Kabul said 21 Sikhs and one Hindu were killed Thursday when rockets landed in and around the Sikh Gurdwara, or Templ ...
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In 1988, on the first day of Baisakhi festivities, a man with an AK-47 stormed a gurdwara in Jalalabad and gunned down 13 Sikhs and four Afghan soldiers. ...
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Not more than 700. Chhabol Singh, member, managing committee, Gurdwara Dashmesh Pita Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji Singh Sabha Karte Parwan, Kabul, said, “There are around 650 Sikhs (90-100 families) and nearly 50 Hindus left here… No one wants to live here now after the Kabul gurdwara attack.”
On July 1, 2018, a suicide bomb attack in Jalalabad kill ...
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On 1 July 2018, a suicide bomber detonated in the center of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing 20 people, mainly Sikhs and Hindus, and injuring 20 others.
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The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it targeted Afghan Special Forces. In a further statement they said that 60 Afghan soldiers and " ...
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Targeting the Indian embassy in Kabul for the second time, a Taliban suicide bomber blew up an explosives-laden car outside the mission, killing 17 persons and injuring over 80, including three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) soldiers. The embassy staff, however, was unhurt. ...
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The Taliban carried out coordinated suicide attacks at two hotels in Kabul, killing at least nine Indians, including two Major-rank Army officers. At least 10 others, including five Indian Army officers, were injured in the strike that killed eight others, including locals and nationals from other countries. The bombers, believed to be three in num ...
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There were four Indians among 14 persons killed in an attack carried out by terrorists at the Park Palace Guest House in Kabul's Kolola Pushta area. Agencies believed that the then Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Amar Sinha, was the prime target of the attack. "It was known that the Indian envoy would be visiting the guesthouse on Wednesday eveni ...
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Nankana Sahib (AsiaNews) - A crowd of Islamic radicals attacked the Sikh temple in Nankana Sahib (in Punjab), the hometown of Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, to avenge the arrest of a Muslim man who had kidnapped and converted a Sikh girl to Islam. The crowd gathered yesterday evening in front of the main entrance of the sacred place, th ...
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Kalyan Singh, a Sikh leader, alleged,
Violence was triggered by the family of Mohammad Hassam, the boy who kidnapped and converted Jagjit Kaur about six months ago. The girl's parents managed to get her home thanks to the intervention of government officials. But Mohammad's relatives want the young woman to come back to them.
Jagjit Kaur was abdu ...
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