Top Pak Judge Inaugurates Rebuilt Hindu Temple Destroyed By Mob: Report

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Peshawar A century-old Hindu tabernacle, which was vandalised and set on fire by an irate mob of revolutionaries in northwest Pakistan last time, has been opened to addicts by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed who had ordered authorities to reconstruct it, according to a media report on Tuesday.
In December last time, century-old Shri Param Hans Ji Maharaj tabernacle in Teri vill in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak quarter was vandalised and demolished by a mob led by some original ministers belonging to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F).

Chief Justice Ahmed at the time ordered authorities to reconstruct the tabernacle and instructed them to recover the plutocrat for the restoration work from the bushwhackers whose act had caused” transnational embarrassment”to Pakistan.

On Monday, Chief Justice Ahmed attended a grand function at the rebuilt tabernacle to celebrate Diwali jubilee and to express solidarity with the members of the Hindu community, the Express Tribune review reported.

Addressing the initial form, Chief Justice Ahmed said that the Supreme Court of Pakistan has always taken way to cover the rights of nonages and it would continue to do so in the future, the paper reported.

According to the Constitution, the Hindus enjoy the same rights as people of other persuasions in Pakistan, he was quoted as saying by the paper.

While assuring that the Supreme Court will insure protection of religious freedom to the country’s nonage communities, he asserted that no bone has the authority to destroy or harm a religious place of deification belonging to another community.

The community presented the Chief Justice with a turban and a digital Quran.

He was invited to the event by the Pakistan Hindu Council, which also hosted pilgrims from Sindh and Balochistan businesses.

Pakistan Hindu Council patron-in- chief and member of the National Assembly Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani expressed gratefulness to the measures taken by the Chief Justice and the Supreme Court, the report said.

Dr Vankwani, a elderly leader of the ruling Tehreek-e-Insaaf Party headed by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, said that if analogous way are taken to inaugurate four other major tabernacles, it would help ameliorate the country’s image in the world, the report said.

The rebuilt sanctum is associated with a saint, Shri Param Hans Ji Maharaj, in Karak quarter of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa fiefdom where the tabernacle was established in 1920.

Last month, the Pakistan top court also ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa parochial government to recover$ from the lawbreakers involved in vandalising the sanctum.

Further than 100 people who were involved in the incident were arrested, as per the top court directive.

In 1997, the sanctum was first attacked and oppressively damaged, and Dr Vankwani had approached the Supreme Court in 2015 seeking help to restore the holy place and renew the periodic passage.

After the Supreme Court issued directives to the parochial government to restore and save the Teri tabernacle, the Pakistan Hindu Council started holding the periodic fair in 2015.

Since the tabernacle is being managed by the original Hindu families, it comes administratively under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa fiefdom government and not under the Evacuee Trust Property Board’s control.

Hindus form the biggest nonage community in Pakistan.