As of 2001, Jalalabad had 100 Sikh families,
totaling around 700 people, who worship at two large Gurdwaras.
In Jalalabad, where the streets were covered in posters
and cars were draped in flags, many had painted their faces with the colors of the Afghan flag: black, red and green.
When I have my musical instruments with me, people talk a lot behind my back,” said Mina, a trumpeter in the orchestra,
whose mother is a policewoman in the eastern city of Jalalabad.