CJ takes notice of Hindu temple desecration as police make arrests
Supreme Court to take up case on Jan 5; the cleric who instigates attack belongs to JUI-F
Resentful local residents attacked a Hindu temple in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa s Karak district on December 30, 2020. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD:
Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed will take up the desecration of a Hindu shrine/temple in Karak district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) by a mob as police on Thursday rounded up dozens of suspects – including the cleric who had instigated the attack.
The top judge also directed the One Man Commission on Minorities Rights, the provincial chief secretary and police chief to visit the site and submit a report on the incident, according to a statement issued by the apex court.
Mob vandalises Hindu temple in Karak
DPO says FIR registered, raids being conducted to arrest culprits; CM takes notice
LAKKI MARWAT/
KARACHI:
A mob, reportedly led by clerics, on Wednesday vandalised a Hindu temple in the southern Karak district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, community leaders and police have confirmed. The temple, though no longer functional, is considered a revered pilgrimage site by the Hindu community.
Residents in the Terri area of Karak were not happy with the ongoing renovation and extension of the temple which is why they vandalised it before setting fire to it, according to the community leaders. The mob was too big for the local administration and police to confront.
Mob vandalises Hindu temple in Karak
DPO says FIR registered, raids being conducted to arrest culprits; CM takes notice LAKKI MARWAT/
KARACHI:
A mob, reportedly led by clerics, on Wednesday vandalised a Hindu temple in the southern Karak district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, community leaders and police have confirmed. The temple, though no longer functional, is considered a revered pilgrimage site by the Hindu community.
Residents in the Terri area of Karak were not happy with the ongoing renovation and extension of the temple which is why they vandalised it before setting fire to it, according to the community leaders. The mob was too big for the local administration and police to confront.
CM special assistant visits site for bridge in Upper Chitral
Peshawar
December 17, 2020
CHITRAL: Special Assistant to Chief Minister Wazir Zada visited the site of a temporary steel bridge to be erected on a stream at Istaro point in Upper Chitral district.
Member Provincial Assembly Maulana Hidayatur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner Upper Chitral, Chitral Scouts Commandant Colonel Ali Zafar, elders of the area including Sultan Wazir, Haroon Khan, Safeerullah and others were present on the occasion.
Officials of the Communication and Works Department briefed the special assistant on the construction of a steel bridge on the stream at Istaro point.
They said that the construction of a temporary steel bridge would take some two months time, which would not facilitate the residents in the current winter and snowfall.