India has praised the Taliban’s effort to return property to Afghanistan’s minority Sikh and Hindu communities. In an attempt to rid Afghanistan’s major cities of real estate mobs, the Taliban government’s “Justice Ministry” in Kabul has launched a massive crackdown in recent weeks on property owners who had obtained their holdings unlawfully in earlier decades.

     In response to a query from The Hindu at the weekly press conference, the Ministry of External Affairs’ official spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal, stated on Friday, “We have seen reports on this issue.” We consider it a wonderful development if the Taliban government has chosen to reinstate the property rights of its citizens who are members of the Afghan Hindu and Sikh communities.

    Narender Singh Khalsa, an Afghan Sikh leader, has returned to Kabul on the decision of the “Justice Ministry,” as reported by The Hindu previously. The Taliban had promised him and other members of the minority religious sects that their property rights would be protected. Hezb-e-Islami’s powerful leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, received a notification from the “Justice Ministry” recently requesting that he leave the Kabul bungalow he owned. The Taliban then forcibly removed Mr. Hekmatyar from his home. The Taliban government’s “Justice Minister,” Abdul Hakim Sharaee, declared that Mr. Hekmatyar’s home and workplace had to be turned up to the Taliban since they were “state-owned properties” that he had previously unlawfully taken. Mr. Hekmatyar was among the top.

               Insiders familiar with the Taliban’s approach to property rights have noted that the group feels that many of the prominent figures in Kabul’s and other major Afghan cities’ property landscapes have changed over the course of the preceding forty years, starting with the Soviet Union’s invasion of the nation. It is believed that the Taliban has discovered that the late Mohammed Qasim Fahim, the former Afghanistan Vice-President and Minister of Defense, has taken possession of some notable Sikh houses in the Karte Parwan neighborhood of Kabul. It’s interesting to note that Fahim served as a key commander in the Northern Alliance, which was supported by India and battled the Taliban in the 1990s. This specific detail gives a hint.