Both the gurudwaras are locked, but there are voices coming from inside, when they knocked on the door, they said - tell an Indian to call at 8 p.m.
The resident of Kabul travelled about 150 kilometres through the streets of the city in three days. He especially passed through areas where Indians have generally lived.
Passing through these streets, earlier many Hindustani shops were seen decorated. Even those with a hundred or fifty turbans were also noticed, but now that is not the case. In these three days, only one shop of an Indian was seen open and on the street, the turbaned ones were not seen equal. Maybe not even one.
No temple was seen on this road in the journey. Yes, the gurudwara must be seen, that too two. A closed and a low voice proof of his being. The first was found at Gurudwara Karte Parwan and the second at Shor Bazar. Kabuliwala reached both the places. The rest of the things are his...
There is a sound coming from inside, but the door of the gurudwara has not been open for 10 days.
The shore market falls in the posh area of Kabul City. On its main road itself is a clean, white-painted, three-story building of about 3,000 square yards. In front of it there are 4 cut trees. The roof floors are painted blue. There is no gurudwara written anywhere in it, but those living around say - every morning and evening 50-60 people used to come here to take a holy dip.
The main gate of the building is currently closed. About 12 feet high, painted in wheat colour, this gate seems to be made of a strong sheet of iron. We knocked this gate at 12.30 am on August 21, 5:45 pm on August 22 and 7:15 pm on August 23. We will record the video for The Hindustan's media Dainik Bhaskar.
But there was no response from inside. After knocking on the door on August 22, we stayed here for an hour. Then we also heard the voices of some children from inside. People in the neighbourhood say that some families are living in the gurudwara. They have spice shops in the noisy market itself.
First the door did not open, then he gave the mobile number and said - not to you, speak to an Indian, call after 8 pm.
Karte Parwan is one of the densely populated hamlets of Kabul. As soon as the gate of the settlement is opened, there are two-storey buildings adjacent to each other by the line on the left. The first of these runs the gurudwara on the floor above the building. Below is the medicine shop by the name of Hakim Narinder Singh Khalsa Folic Medicalist. This shop is also closed and there are 3 locks on the door of the gurudwara.
People in the vicinity say that earlier 24-25 Sikh families lived in these 8-10 houses. Neighbours said that on the night of the 20th, 30-40 people had left in a yellow bus. He's just standing here right now.
We wanted these things to happen directly to the Sikh families, but it was around 2:15 pm on August
21. Half an hour after he made a noise and knocked on the door, a chieftain came out. When he asked anything, he was repeating two lines - we are well off. We don't have anyone to say anything right now.
We told them that the Hindustanis want to record your point for the media house, so that you can convey your story to the people of India and to the Hindustani government. On this, he said that take our mobile number. We're not going to talk to you about this. Tell a Hindustani to call after 8 p.m.
"We have kept our belongings in the gurudwara, we will come out only if the situation worsens, we were here even during the Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001."
From Bhopal at 7:50 pm on August 21, we sent a voice message and a written message to the Sikh bashinde of Kabul. I told them we wanted to talk to them. They want to print their words, but if they feel any danger in it, then let them know, we will keep their words to the concerned authorities. They won't publish them.
He saw the message, but didn't respond. At 8 pm we called him, but he cut off. I didn't talk to them that day. The next day i.e. on August 22, our Kabuliwale spoke to him again, but he refused to talk.
On Monday, August 23, at 3:10 p.m., he called us himself. He started his talk from here that he has not been harassed in any way by the Taliban regime so far, but he was repeating it again and again that let's see what happens next.
He later said that 22 of his families had left for Kabul airport, but since yesterday they have not been able to get rid of them. We are concerned about them, we request the Indian government to send an airplane and call them home.
He further said that he and his four families have been running a medical and spice shop in Kabul for nearly 30 years. They will stay here until they see a threat too close. At present, he has kept his valuables in the Gurudwara.
So far, these people have not told us anything, but i don't know what will happen next, take us away from here: Manjed Singh
As he left The Karte Parwan, a blue turbaned sardar was seen sitting alone at a spice shop. He was speaking Hindi. When we asked him, he agreed to talk on the mobile camera. He spoke to us for 2:25 minutes. His face was flat while talking. They didn't look too scared, nor did they look happy. We're putting their words down to the bottom
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