SGPC seeks fresh count of Gurdwaras in Pakistan
Tue, Feb 16 2021 09:55:17 AM
By Ravinder Singh Robin
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS): The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has sought a fresh count of the number of Gurdwaras in Pakistan following a controversy.
The SGPC Sikh s single largest representative body in the world, has asked the Pakistan government to conduct a fresh count of Gurdwaras to bring an end to the confusion created by Pakistan s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) and the ruling party s Member National Assembly (MNA) Ramesh Kumar Vankwani.
Talking to the media, spokesperson of ETPB, Aamir Hashmi said there were 105 Gurdwaras in Pakistan out of which 18 were functional while the other Gurdwaras were involved in some or other kind of litigation and were closed.
AMRITSAR: Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) has triggered a new controversy after it claimed that there are only 105 gurdwaras in the country as against a reported number of around 300 gurdwara’s including historical ones.
While claiming that ETPB had undertaken various developmental works of gurdwaras and temples in Pakistan, ETPB spokesperson Amir Hashmi told TOI on Wednesday that there were a total of 105 gurdwaras in Pakistan.
“Eighteen gurdwaras are open and functional under the control of ETPB while eighty-seven gurdwaras are closed since they are involved in different kinds of litigation in various courts of Pakistan ” said the spokesperson.
AMRITSAR: Sikh and Hindu minority children in Pakistan will now be able to receive free vocational training after Pakistan’ Evacuee Trust Property Board(ETPB) agreed to fund their vocational training during its Board member meeting on Friday.
While talking to TOI on Friday, ETPB chairman Aamer Ahmed informed that the Board had approved to make an agreement with government-run vocational training institutes in Pakistan-Punjab for providing free vocational training to the children of Sikhs and Hindus. Irrespective of the number of students, the ETPB will directly credit the fee in the accounts of Punjab vocational council , said Aamer.
The 20 member Board of ETPB includes 6 all-Muslim official members and 14 nonofficial members, It comprises of a majority of Muslims and a handful of Hindus and Sikhs.
Pak Hindus stage protest against demolition of temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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Pak Hindus stage protest against demolition of temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Yudhvir Rana / TNN / Updated: Dec 31, 2020, 19:51 IST
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The protest against temple demolition saw the participation of many women and children.
AMRITSAR: Hindu men, women, and children from all walks of life staged a protest in Karachi on Thursday against the demolition of a Hindu temple in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province on Wednesday. This incident would have never happened if the then administration had given exemplary punishment to the miscreants who had earlier made a similar attempt in 1997, said Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, patron-in-chief of Pakistan Hindu Council and member of National Assembly.
Updated: Dec 23, 2020, 10:18 PM IST
True to its reputation, Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) is once again trying to forcibly occupy a prime land which has been given on lease to Teerath Singh, a Sikh resident of Nankana Sahib.
According to highly places intelligence sources, the officials of ETPB in connivance with local police built the walls and laid the roof on the plot which was on lease with Teerath Singh.
ETPB’s action evoked sharp protests from the Sikh community of Nankana Sahib which gathered in front of the office of ETPB and staged a demonstration. According to a photograph that is viral on the net, Pakistan’s hardliner Sikh leader Gopal Singh Chawla is seen leading the Sikh’s protest. Sources informed that ETPB had earlier been forcibly occupying the gurdwara properties and selling them to the land grabbers or constructing residential colonies as it constructed Defense Housing Colony in Lahore.