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[America] Joe Biden promise refugee status to Afghan Sikhs if elected
Expressing concerns over targeting of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan after the attack on Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib, US Presidential candidate and former Vice-President Joe Biden has said they will be given refugee status in America if he was elected President.“If I am elected President, my administration will renew our commitment to refugees….I will raise the annual global refugee admissions cap to 1,25,000,’’ he declared in a statement issued on a day when a US panel, frequently in the cross-hairs of the Ministry of External Affairs for its observations on Kashmir and Islamophobia in the Indian media, also made common cause on the Sikh issue.The influential Sam Brownback, head of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), called the attacks on the Sikhs in Afghanistan a ...