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Archaeology in Pakistan is forced to deny its Hindu past
A member of the Hindu community holds a damaged statue inside a temple that was attacked on Saturday night, in Larkana, southern Pakistan’s Sindh province, March 16, 2014. REUTERS/Faheem Soormro
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4th Feb 2021
Don’t be taken in by the Pakistan government’s lip-service to becoming a multi-religious society every time it promises the repair or reconstruction of a destroyed Hindu temple in that country. It just cannot mean what it says in this context.
That is the way to read the recent drama in Pakistan over what was announced as the first Hindu temple in the capital city, Islamabad. The reality, instead, played out somewhere else in the country, just before the dawn of the new year, 2021, in the wanton destruction of a temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. ....

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