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January 6, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) Tuesday ordered reconstruction of the shrine of Hindu saint Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj, damaged by a mob in Karak with the money recovered from the maulvi and his followers who attacked and burnt the temple.
The court also sought a comprehensive report on functional and non-functional temples and Gurdwaras throughout the country.
A three-member SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, heard a suo motu case about desecration/ burning of shrine of the Hindu saint in Karak some days back. On Dec 31, the CJ had taken suo motu notice of the incident and had directed the One Man Commission on Minorities Rights, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary and inspector general of police (IGP) to visit the site and submit the compliance report.
SC irked at illegal constructions
Orders demolition of Royal Park Residency, suspension of shopping mall project
Supreme Court of Pakistan. PHOTO: AFP
KARACHI:
Hearing the case pertaining to payment of compensation to the affected residents of Royal Park Residency on Wednesday, the Supreme Court directed the relevant authorities to immediately take over the Creek Side Shopping Mall project and complete the demolition of Royal Park Residency within a month.
Where did the owners of Royal Park Residency flee to when they have other projects in Karachi, inquired the bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed.
The counsel representing the affected residents informed the court that one of the partners of the residential project is in London and the other is in Dubai. He further informed the court that another project of theirs - the Creek Side Shopping Mall - is being constructed in Defence Housing Authority.
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.
Boundary wall to be built around H-9 temple
CDA defines parameters for the construction of boundary or fence
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December 22, 2020
ISLAMABAD:
To protect the land allocated for the construction of a temple and cremation site for the Hindu residents of the federal capital, the apex civic authority of the city on Monday accorded permission for the construction of a boundary wall around the site in Sector H-9/2. Permission to construct a boundary will around the cremation ground for the Hindu community in Sector H-9/2, Islamabad is hereby accorded in accordance with clause 4.I.I of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Building Control Regulations 2020, ensuring that height of this boundary wall shall not accord 7 -0 ,” reads the notification from the Capital Development Authority (CDA).