Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQMParty founder Altaf Hussain has strongly condemned the attack and sabotage Hindu temple in the district Rahim Yar Khan of Punjab province Pakistan.
Hussain, who is living in exile in Great Britain, said in a statement issued on Twitter that a few days ago in the city of Faisalabad in Punjab province, the place of worship of “Ahmedians” was desecrated.
Now a mob of extremist elements attacked and destroyed a “Hindu” temple (Ganesh Mandir) in “Bhong” village of “Rahim Yar Khan” district of Punjab province.
Idols were desecrated and posters of deities were burnt by militant elements.
Altaf Hussain strongly condemned the incident and said that it was an “unacceptable, non-islamicInhuman, immoral, immoral and unconstitutional act of vandalism”.
Hussain said that all these are the creation of religious extremist groups. Pakistani Army and its intelligence agency, ISI. He said these groups were taught to hate and destroy non-Muslim places of worship in Pakistan.
He said that Pakistan has become the death place for all non-Muslim minorities and other oppressed countries of Pakistan.
A Hindu temple was attacked by a mob on Wednesday in Bhong town of Pakistan’s Rahim Yar Khan district. Pakistani MLA and Hindu community leader, Ramesh Kumar Vankwani shared videos of the incident.
In one of the videos, the mob can be seen destroying the temple infrastructure.
The mob ransacked the temple and vandalized the idols and the structure of the temple.
Meanwhile, India has summoned Pakistan’s Charge d’Affaires and lodged a strong protest over the attack on a Hindu temple in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said on Thursday that Pakistani Charge d’Affaires had been summoned and “expressing its grave concern over this reprehensible incident and continued attacks on the freedom of religion of the minority community and their places of religious worship”. .
India called upon Pakistan to ensure the safety, security and welfare of its minority communities.
In recent years, there has been an increase in attacks on places of worship of religious minorities in Pakistan. The country has been repeatedly slammed by the international community for not protecting the interests of its minorities.
In December last year, a mob of over a hundred people led by local Muslim clerics destroyed and set ablaze the temple in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A video clip that has gone viral on social media shows a violent mob breaking the walls and ceiling of the temple.
A recent report by the Minority Rights Commission in Pakistan paints a “dismal” picture of the most iconic Hindu sites in the country.
report submitted to the country Supreme court As Dawn reports, April presents a “general picture of decay and oblivion” of two of the four most respected evacuation sites in Pakistan.
The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), a statutory board of the Government of Pakistan, has failed to maintain the ancient and sacred sites of the minority community, the report said.
Dawn, citing the statutory board ETPB, pointed out that out of 365 temples, only 13 were being managed by them, 65 were left with the Hindu community, and “the rest of the temples were abandoned.”
Pakistan continues to discriminate against its religious minorities, which manifests itself in various forms of targeted violence, mass killings, extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, rapes, forced conversions to Islam, etc., making Pakistani Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Ahmadiyyas and Shias. go. One of the most persecuted minorities in the region.
The 2020 report, International Religious Freedom, released by the United States earlier this year, highlighted the downward spiral of religious expression in Pakistan, particularly in the form of blasphemy laws, for which the punishment is up to the death penalty.
Hussain, who is living in exile in Great Britain, said in a statement issued on Twitter that a few days ago in the city of Faisalabad in Punjab province, the place of worship of “Ahmedians” was desecrated.
Now a mob of extremist elements attacked and destroyed a “Hindu” temple (Ganesh Mandir) in “Bhong” village of “Rahim Yar Khan” district of Punjab province.
Idols were desecrated and posters of deities were burnt by militant elements.
Altaf Hussain strongly condemned the incident and said that it was an “unacceptable, non-islamicInhuman, immoral, immoral and unconstitutional act of vandalism”.
Hussain said that all these are the creation of religious extremist groups. Pakistani Army and its intelligence agency, ISI. He said these groups were taught to hate and destroy non-Muslim places of worship in Pakistan.
He said that Pakistan has become the death place for all non-Muslim minorities and other oppressed countries of Pakistan.
A Hindu temple was attacked by a mob on Wednesday in Bhong town of Pakistan’s Rahim Yar Khan district. Pakistani MLA and Hindu community leader, Ramesh Kumar Vankwani shared videos of the incident.
In one of the videos, the mob can be seen destroying the temple infrastructure.
The mob ransacked the temple and vandalized the idols and the structure of the temple.
Meanwhile, India has summoned Pakistan’s Charge d’Affaires and lodged a strong protest over the attack on a Hindu temple in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said on Thursday that Pakistani Charge d’Affaires had been summoned and “expressing its grave concern over this reprehensible incident and continued attacks on the freedom of religion of the minority community and their places of religious worship”. .
India called upon Pakistan to ensure the safety, security and welfare of its minority communities.
In recent years, there has been an increase in attacks on places of worship of religious minorities in Pakistan. The country has been repeatedly slammed by the international community for not protecting the interests of its minorities.
In December last year, a mob of over a hundred people led by local Muslim clerics destroyed and set ablaze the temple in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A video clip that has gone viral on social media shows a violent mob breaking the walls and ceiling of the temple.
A recent report by the Minority Rights Commission in Pakistan paints a “dismal” picture of the most iconic Hindu sites in the country.
report submitted to the country Supreme court As Dawn reports, April presents a “general picture of decay and oblivion” of two of the four most respected evacuation sites in Pakistan.
The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), a statutory board of the Government of Pakistan, has failed to maintain the ancient and sacred sites of the minority community, the report said.
Dawn, citing the statutory board ETPB, pointed out that out of 365 temples, only 13 were being managed by them, 65 were left with the Hindu community, and “the rest of the temples were abandoned.”
Pakistan continues to discriminate against its religious minorities, which manifests itself in various forms of targeted violence, mass killings, extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, rapes, forced conversions to Islam, etc., making Pakistani Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Ahmadiyyas and Shias. go. One of the most persecuted minorities in the region.
The 2020 report, International Religious Freedom, released by the United States earlier this year, highlighted the downward spiral of religious expression in Pakistan, particularly in the form of blasphemy laws, for which the punishment is up to the death penalty.
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