Sydney - In the wake of the recent killings of 19 members of the Sikh and Hindu minorities in Jalalabad, the National Sikh Council of Australia held a prayer meeting in the presence of Afghanistan Ambassador H.E. Wahidullah Waissi at the Sikh Mission Centre in Sydney on Wednesday. 

The Sikh community representative welcomed Ambassador Waissi and thanked him for his visit. Ambassador Waissi travelled from Canberra to Sydney and held a 90 minute-long meeting with Sikh representatives at Sikh Mission Centre, Austral -- a suburb of Sydney. Ambassador Waissi paid tribute to the Sikh community in his speech and shared his and Afghan Government's condolences to the representatives of the Sikh community. The gathering condemned targeting civilians, particularly, targeting minorities, which is against all principles of Islma and Sikhism.