Buddhism in Afghanistan

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Religiously, Afghans are over 98% Muslim, approximately 89.2% Sunni and 8.9% Shi'a. Other religions are Zoroastrian(1.4%) and Hindu(0.4%). Afghanistan was once home to a an ancient Jewish community, numbering approximately 5,000 in 1948. (See Bukharan Jews.) With the fall of the Taliban, a number of Sikhs have returned to the Ghazni, Nangarhar, Kandahar and Kabul provinces of Afghanistan.


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