30 Arrested For Damaging Hindu Temple In Pakistan, Government Orders Its Reconstruction 30 Arrested For Damaging Hindu Temple In Pakistan, Government Orders Its Reconstruction The attack on the temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa s (KP) Karak district on Wednesday drew strong condemnation from human rights activists and Hindu community leaders.
On Thursday, the provincial government ordered authorities to reconstruct the damaged temple.
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Over 30 people, mostly members of a radical Islamist party, were arrested after a Hindu temple was vandalised and set on fire by a mob protesting against its expansion work in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Thursday.
The attack on the temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa s (KP) Karak district on Wednesday drew strong condemnation from human rights activists and Hindu community leaders.
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Pakistani police have arrested over 30 people, most of them belonging to a radical Islamist party, after a Hindu temple was vandalised and set on fire by a mob protesting its renovation in northwest Pakistan.
A central leader of radical Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, Rehmat Salam Khattak, is among those arrested in police raids following the attack on Terri temple and Samadhi of Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj in Karak area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Wednesday, police said.
The mob, led by some local clerics and the supporters of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party (Fazal ur Rehman group), protesting the expansion work of the shrine, demolished the newly constructed work alongside the old structure.
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30 Held for Damaging Hindu Temple in Northwest Pakistan, Govt Orders Its Reconstruction
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)
The attack on the temple in Terri village of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa s Karak district on Wednesday drew strong condemnation from human rights activists and Hindu community leaders.
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Over 30 people, mostly members of a radical Islamist party, were arrested after a Hindu temple was vandalised and set on fire by a mob protesting against its expansion work in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Thursday.