Afghan Hindus

IWPR has an article about the problems Hindus are facing attempting to reclaim old sacred sites in Afghanistan, especially cremation grounds. Since these grounds were last used, neighborhoods have expanded close to them, and now the residents say they don't want to live next to cremation grounds. The residents say their concerns are not religious, which I find sort of interesting. We've heard a lot about Afghanistan's conservative Islamic culture, but it also strikes me as more old traditions surviving than the ideological Islamism found in places like Saudi Arabia. I'd be interested in learning more about the history of intercommunal relations in the Afghan context, where other religions would have long been part of the social landscape.