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The extremists hit the statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh with wooden rods, broke one of its arms and damaged other parts.
The attackers reiterated that it was against their religion to construct a statue in a Muslim country.
A group of Islamic extremists in Pakistan vandalised the statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, erected at the Lahore Fort (Shahi Qila), at the Mai Jindan’s Haveli on December 12 (Saturday). The fort is an important historical monument for Sikhs and is located near Gurdwara Dera Sahib related to Guru Arjan Dev Ji.
The extremists entered inside the Qila with wooden rods, went straight to the statue, and started hitting it aggressively breaking one of its arms and damaging other parts.
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IF an average Pakistani was asked what his perception of Sikhs was, he would reply: turbans swathed around unshorn hair, legendary prowess as soldiers, and green-fingered success as farmers. And beneath, sub-surface, a yearning for the Punjabi homeland from which they were evicted in 1947.
The Sikhs left their major shrines behind in Pakistan Nankana Sahib, Panja Sahib, Kartarpur, the memorial to Guru Arjan Dev, and Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s samadhi. They felt as Roman Catholics would if expelled from their Vatican.
Few Pakistanis associate the Sikhs with fibre optics, yet it was a Sikh engineer Dr Narinder Singh Kapany who discovered that, despite the insistence otherwise of his physics professors, light rays could be bent. He patented his discovery and then benefited from the Big Bang of information technology. With an inordinate sum of money now at his disposal, Dr Kapany embarked upon a personal mission to preserve Sikh art heritage and to dissem
Dr Kapany wished to preserve shrines, artifacts Sikhs left behind in Pakistan
By News Desk| Updated: 10th December 2020 6:53 pm IST
Fakir S. Aijazuddin
If an average Pakistani was asked what was his perception of Sikhs, he would reply: turbans swathed around unshorn hair, legendary prowess as soldiers, and green-fingered success as farmers. And beneath, sub-surface, a yearning for the Punjabi homeland from which they were evicted in 1947.
The Sikhs left their major shrines behind in Pakistan Nankana
sahib, Panja
samadhi. They felt as Roman Catholics would if expelled from their Vatican.
Few Pakistanis associate the Sikhs with fibre optics, yet it was a Sikh engineer Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany who discovered that, despite the insistence otherwise of his Physics professors, light rays could be bent. He patented his discovery and then benefited from the Big Bang of Information Technology. With an inordinate sum of money now at his disposal, Dr. Kapany embarked upon a pe