With fund & engineers, Taliban help rebuild gurdwara hit by Islamic State | World News,The Indian Express
At the site in Karte Parwan, The Indian Express came across Afghan workers painting walls, cutting marble panels, laying floor tiles and giving finishing touches to the centrepiece in the main congregation hall -- the takht -- where the Guru Granth Sahib will be placed.
The Taliban regime financed the rebuilding of Gurdwara Dashmesh Pita in Kabul, which was all but destroyed two months ago in a gun-and-bombs attack that was claimed by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), according to members of the Hindu and Sikh community in charge of the construction work.
“Their own people, including engineers, came here, assessed the damage, made the calculations and gave us the money,” said Ram Saran Bhasin, who heads the Hindu-Sikh society in Kabul and is supervising the work.
“The Taliban gave 40 lakh Afghani rupees…The reconstruction has almost entirely been funded by the Islamic Emirate,” he said, using the formal name for the regime in Afghanistan. “We didn’t raise any other funds.”
At the site in Karte Parwan, The Indian Express came across Afghan workers painting walls, cutting marble panels, laying floor tiles and giving finishing touches to the centrepiece in the main congregation hall — the takht — where the Guru Granth Sahib will be placed.
The gurdwara, located on a slip street off the main road, is now guarded by the Taliban.
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