VIDEO: Pakistan arrests at least 26 after temple destroyed
31 Dec 2020 A policeman stands guard at the burnt temple a day after a mob attack in Karak district, Peshawar. AFP
Gulf Today Report
Pakistani police arrested at least 26 people, including several clerics, in overnight raids after a temple was demolished by a mob led by supporters of a radical militant party, officials said on Thursday.
Around 1,500 people descended on the temple which was destroyed in similar circumstances in 1997 after staging a protest against renovations at an adjoining building owned by Hindus.
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Pakistan’s minister for religious affairs, Noorul Haq Qadri, called the attack on the temple a conspiracy against sectarian harmony.