He was waiting for visa to India, which didn't come

Ludhiana: Savinder Singh Kakkar (42) died in the terrorist attack at the Gurdwara in Karte Parwan of Kabul in Afghanistan the other day.

It had been two years since he visited his family in Delhi.

As his mortal remains were not brought back to Delhi, his family watched the cremation on video call, according to The Indian Express.

Terrorists stormed inside the Gurdwara Dashmesh Pita Sahib Guru Gobind Singh and opened fire, killing Kakkar.

The attack caught the Afghan Sikh community in Delhi unawares.

Its shock felt to the  community all the way from Kabul here, and they held a prayer meeting here.

The union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami attended the meeting.

Kakkar had shifted his wife, three sons and a daughter to Delhi from Afghanistan in 2012, Sikh community members reportedly said.

Kakkar who had small grocery shop in Kabul kept travelling between Kabul and Delhi—the shop was his livelihood.

He was waiting for the issuance of visa after the Taliban takeover.

Kakkar's son Ajmeet Singh who returned from the UK said his father was waiting for visa to India, which was never approved.

Kakkar was a native of Ghazni city of Afghanistan but had later moved to Kabul.

Kakkar's younger son Jagandeep Singh said every Friday his father went to Ghazni for sewa of gurdwaras and spend Saturday there, according to the report.

However, he didn't go there this week and he died in the attack.

Kakkar is survived by wife, three sons and a daughter. While two sons live in the UK, wife, a son and a daughter live in Delhi in a rented accommodation.