DNA reports:
— “Despite strong protest by Pakistan’s Hindu community, an 87-year-old pre-partition Hindu temple in Pakistan’s garrison town of Rawalpindi is facing demolition.”
— “According to Jagmohan Kumar, the head of the Hindu community in Rawalpindi, the templewas being used by Hindus and Sikhs to perform last rituals of their dear ones.”
— “According to the plaque fixed on the building, Lala Tansukh Rai, the Raees-e-Azam Rawalpindi, had constructed the temple in memory of his wife. ‘The ‘Shamshan Ghat’ is not only used by the locals but by the foreign missions of China and the Buddhist community as well’, Kumar said.”

— see also Dawn report

— Pakistan The News report

— image of old Hindu temple in Rawalpindi

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