Kabul nolonger felt like home for Sawinder Singh after the Taliban took overAfghanistan last year. He ran a ‘Paan’ shop near the gurudwara, but alwayswanted to come back to Delhi as his whole family lived there. He had appliedfor an e-visa which was approved on Sunday.
GurudwaraKarte Parwan allegedly attacked the ISIS terrorists on Saturday morning to takerevenge over Prophet Muhammad’s remarks. In this whole attack, two people losttheir lives and Sawinder Singh was one of them.
“He wastrying to get a visa ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan,” his wifePal Kaur breaks into tears while narrating how she feared for her husband eversince the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital last year. “Had he got his visa in time he would not have diedthis brutally,” ads his wife.
Sawinder Singh was taking a bath when he was fatally shot multipletimes, said kin of the Afghan Sikh man who is among the two persons killed in aterror attack on a gurdwara in Kabul.
Severalblasts tore through Gurdwara Karte Parwan which was home to at least 150 Sikhs, who have beenstaying there since the fall of the Ashraf Ghani government last August. Singhwas also a Granthi at the Gurudwara. Day after the attack took place, India approvede-visas for over 100 Sikhs and Hindus living in Afghanistan.
InDelhi, family members of Sawinder Singh are mourning the loss of a loved one,as they struggle to put behind the horrid images of the attack and his wife isnot in a state to speak anything.
