{"id":10586,"date":"2022-06-19T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T10:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10586"},"modified":"2022-06-19T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T10:18:38","slug":"india-grants-e-visa-to-over-100-afghan-sikhs-and-hindus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/06\/india-grants-e-visa-to-over-100-afghan-sikhs-and-hindus\/","title":{"rendered":"India grants e-visa to over 100 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The Indian government has granted e-visa to over 100 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, on priority, after the targeted attack against the community in Kabul on Saturday, sources told NDTV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two people, including a Sikh, were killed as several blasts tore through a gurdwara in Kabul on Saturday, in the latest targeted assault on a place of worship of the Sikh community in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was retaliation for insults against the Prophet Mohammed, news agency AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>The attack at Gurdwara Karte Parwan in Kabul&#8217;s Bagh-e Bala neighborhood lasted for several hours and three attackers were killed by the Taliban forces, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The gurdwara was attacked early in the morning when up to 30 people were inside, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers, a spokesperson for the Afganistan Interior Ministry said, had detonated a vehicle full of explosives outside of the gurdwara but that resulted in no casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First the gunmen threw a hand grenade which caused a fire near the gate of the gurdwara,&#8221; the Associated Press quoted the Interior Ministry spokesman as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the &#8220;barbaric&#8221; terrorist attack and said he was praying for the safety and well-being of the devotees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shocked by the cowardly terrorist attack against the Karte Parwan Gurudwara in Kabul. I condemn this barbaric attack, and pray for the safety and well-being of the devotees,&#8221; PM Modi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The Indian government has granted e-visa to over 100 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, on priority, after the targeted attack against the community in Kabul on Saturday, sources told NDTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,17,5,3,4,6,7],"tags":[12,13,192,537,863],"class_list":["post-10586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-security_","category-politics_","category-dontuse","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-india","tag-sikh","tag-hindu"],"views":295,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}