Two days after a Ganesh temple was attacked and desecrated by radical Islamists in Rahim Yar Khan within the Punjab province of Pakistan, an alliance of twenty-two non secular and political events on Friday (August 6) refused to sentence the act of violence and vandalism, reported Dawn.
The alliance of events additionally referred to as the Milli Yakjehti Council (MYC), claimed that they had been unaware of the main points of the Hindu temple assault. During a press convention in Islamabad, Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair deviated the subject to a different incident in Hyderabad. He alleged, “There is a Muslim family living in front of a temple in Hyderabad. The area also housed some Hindu families and they filed a complaint to the authorities that sacrificing (a) cow in front of the temple should not be allowed. The majority too has rights.”
Zubair additional sermonised that the rights of the minority communities are ‘protected’ below Islamic legal guidelines (Sharia), however added that the ‘rights’ of the bulk group (Muslims) should not be denied as effectively. It should be talked about that Zubair is a member of the novel Islamist outfit Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (JUP) and the newly elected President of the Supreme Council of MYC. When Pakistani journalists additional prodded the leaders of Milli Yakjehti Council, secretary normal Liaquat Baloch alleged, “The minority community in the country has complete freedom.”
150 Hindu households flee village out of concern of spiritual persecution
Baloch, a member of Jamaat-i-Islami, refused to sentence the temple assault below the pretext of not being conscious of the info. When journalists continued to quiz the MYC leaders in regards to the incident, ex-deputy secretary-general Dr Saqib Akbar requested them to maneuver on to a different subject and chorus from discussing the temple problem.
This is even if the Milli Yakjehti Council had vowed to discourage provocative actions, speeches, and statements forward of the month of Muharram. According to Hindu rights activist Rahat Austin, about 150 Hindu households had been compelled to flee their houses in Bhong metropolis in Rahim Yar Khan. He lamented, “Punjab was (once) a Hindu majority province but now Rahimyar Khan is (the) the only city where Hindu exists in sizeable numbers.”
Around 150 Hindu households are compelled to flee after offended mob vandalized a temple & attacked their houses in Bhong,Rahimyar Khan, Punjab-Pakistan. Punjab was a Hindu majority province however now Rahimyar Khan is just metropolis the place Hindu exists in a sizeable numbers.@USCIRF @Europarl_EN pic.twitter.com/aAH5PgIFnn— Rahat Austin (@johnaustin47) August 7, 2021
Temple attacked by radical Islamists in Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab
On Wednesday (August 4), a Hindu temple devoted to Lord Gandesha was attacked by a frenzied mob of Pakistani Muslim males in Bhong metropolis of Rahim Yar Khan district within the province of Punjab. Taking cognisance of the matter, ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) parliamentarian Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani took to Twitter to publish movies of the temple assault and urged the legislation enforcement businesses to cease the “burning and vandalizing” of the temple.
“The attackers were carrying sticks, stones, and bricks. They smashed the deities while raising religious slogans,” Vankwani stated. Condemning the assault on the temple in a sequence of tweets, Vankwani demanded arrests of the culprits. He additionally urged the Chief Justice to take fast motion. Police officers confirmed that the temple was badly broken. As per reviews, when the police failed to regulate the mob, the Pakistan Rangers needed to be referred to as in to regulate the scenario. However, no arrests had been made within the case.
Some members of the mob tried to justify the assault, saying that an eight-year-old Hindu boy had urinated close to the library of a Muslim seminary within the space previously week. They claimed that the brutal assault by grownup males on the temple of the group was in retaliation to the 8-year-old boy’s alleged urination. The 8-year-old boy was even arrested and booked final week below Pakistan’s brutal blasphemy legal guidelines however was subsequently launched on bail for being a minor.