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Stay or go? Dilemma facing last of the Afghan Sikhs

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In the 1970s, Afghanistan's Sikh population numbered 100,000, but decades of conflict, poverty and intolerance have driven almost all of them into exile. Today, just around 140 remain, mostly in the eastern city of Jalalabad and in Kabul.

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