NADRA help sought to identify Karak temple attackers
Police conducting raids to apprehend 300 accused named in the FIR
Resentful local residents attacked a Hindu temple in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa s Karak district on December 30, 2020. PHOTO: EXPRESS
The police authorities in Karak has requested the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to help establish the identity of the people visible in the temple attack videos collected by investigation teams.
“We have sought the help of NADRA to arrest all the accused involved in the incident and we are also mobilising human intelligence teams as approximately 300 people have been charged in the FIR,” said DIG Kohat Tayyab Hafiz Cheema while speaking to The Express Tribune, adding that around 109 suspects had already been arrested and efforts are being made to apprehend the rest.
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Members of Pakistan Hindu Council hold a protest against the attack on a Hindu temple in the northwestern town of Karak, in Karachi on Thursday. (AP/PTI photo)
So far, 100 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the incident, the police said, adding that 45 were arrested on Sunday.
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Eight police officials in Pakistan were suspended on Sunday for dereliction of duty after a Hindu temple was vandalised and set on fire by a mob led by members of a radical Islamist party in the country s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. So far, 100 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the incident, the police said, adding that 45 were arrested on Sunday.