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Pakistan: KPK govt to restore 19th century Sikh temple Outlook February 20, 2021 22:19 IST Pakistan: KPK govt to restore 19th century Sikh temple outlookindia.com 1970-01-01T05:30:00+0530
Peshawar, Feb 20 (PTI) The provincial government in Pakistan s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has taken custody of a 19 century Gurudwara built during the reign of Sikh ruler Hari Singh Nalwa, to renovate and open it for devotees. Presently, the sikh temple in Mansehra district is closed and acts as a makeshift library, officials said. The provincial Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department has recommended the local government to take up the restoration proposal with the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) in Lahore.
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ETPB’s 55 properties to be auctioned for education, health facilities
National
February 18, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Evacuee Property Trust Board (ETPB) has decided to auction its 55 properties of over 3,162 kanals for auctioning to public and private sectors for setting up educational and health facilities lying in 20 urban centres of the country.
As per vision of the prime minister, the federal cabinet approved the rules/amendments to supplement health and education facilities to general public by utilisation of urban Evacuee Trust land and properties through public and private sector, said a letter of ETPB available with the APP.
The public sector comprising federal, provincial and local governments were eligible to apply to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony (MoRA&IH) whereas non-profitable and charitable institutions were also encouraged to apply for utilising the properties for public facilitation.
Just a day before the Covid-battered year 2020 ended, a mob led by local leaders of a religious party vandalised a century-old Hindu shrine in Karak district of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP). The mob of more than 1,000 people set the shrine on fire. They did not even spare an under-construction house owned by members of the Hindu community. The incident occurred in the wake of the permission granted to the minority community to extend the temple.
The administration and police remained silent spectators as the mob went about vandalising and setting fire to the premises. The police arrested 24 people for the arson only after outcry from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community. The incident also caused global embarrassment to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s PTI government, prompting Noorul Haq Qadri, the Minister for Religious Affairs, to condemn the attack, saying that the incident was “a conspiracy against sectarian harmony”.