A Sikh man, Sardar Rawail Singh, was abducted from his home in Jalalabad early in the morning yesterday and gunned down by suspected militants in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan, a media report said
Peshawar: A Sikh man, Sardar Rawail Singh, was abducted from his home in Jalalabad early in the morning yesterday and gunned down by suspected militants in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan, a media report said.
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Singh was abducted from his house by militants wearing military fatigues and killed in the Khalis Famil area. The incident triggered a massive protest by the minority.
Sikh community who staged a demonstration by placing Singh’s body in front of the provincial governor’s house in Jalalabad and demanded the arrest of the killers. They accused security forces of negligence in arresting the killers and asked the government to bring to justice the killers as soon as possible. Later, deputy governor Mohammad Hanif Gardiwal met the protesting Sikhs to pacify them.
Rawinder, one of the protesters, said Singh had a dispute with his neighbour on Friday after he invited his friends for a party at his home, and his neighbour objected. Next morning, the neighbour came along with some gunmen and abducted Singh from his home before killing him.