Shrinking Numbers and Growing Persecution Threaten Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan | India Ink

Shrinking Numbers and Growing Persecution Threaten Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan
By BETWA SHARMA

Betwa Sharma [photo]
J. K. Sharma, a Sikh magician at his shop in Shor Bazaar in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 7.
KABUL, Afghanistan — J.K. Sharma, a large Sikh man in a black turban, works out of a small room lined with jars and herbs in the ruined and dusty Shor Bazaar in Kabul. In a war-ravaged