A member of the Hindu community holds a damaged statue inside a temple that was attacked in Larkana in Sindh. PHOTO: REUTERS
HYDERABAD:
Three Hindu temples were reportedly desecrated in Mirpurkhas on Wednesday morning, provoking a strong protest by members of the Hindu community here.
During the attack, idols of Hindu deities in the temples of Shiv, Khaitpar and Khushhal Puri in Kot Ghulam Muhammad taluka were broken by unidentified suspects. SSP Mirpurkhas Jam Zafarullah Dharejo told reporters that the idols appeared to have been smashed with a hammer.
Police used sniffer dogs to trace assailants and five suspects have been rounded up; identified as Rano Kolhi, Bhuro Kolhi, Mewo Kolhi, Madhu Kolhi and Bhago Kolhi, they are residents of a nearby village.
However, referring to the attack in Larkana earlier this month wherein a mob looted a temple before setting it ablaze, he cautioned, “This case should not be compared with the one in Larkana. During investigation we have come to know that the community has some internecine differences over the organisation of a festival.”
The local community’s representatives Mano Kolhi, Kiran Kumar, Khem Chand and Seth Ramon Malhi, among others, led a protest on the road linking the town with Mirpurkhas. The protesters threw stones and burnt tyres on the road and demanded that the culprits be brought to justice.
The Young Hindu Panchayat and Pakistan Hindu Council have condemned the attack and demanded an inquiry into this incident as well as five other attacks on the community’s places of worship earlier this year.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2014.
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and that hafiz saeed tweets that minorities are safe in pakistan...........maybe he never steps outta his house for he fears RAW/CIA but he could still c television.... i guess its the loadshedding .... ;)
Our "azad adaliya" will soon set free all the accused.
Minorities in Mirpurkhas: Five suspects rounded up for attack on Hindu places of worship...............and later they were let go because of no evidence against them.........
Karachi ,Sindh is supposed to be the most cosmopolitan city in Pak today . If this is the situation of minorities there ,I dread to think what is happening in other cities of Pak . I still dont understand what they are trying to prove to whom by targetting minorities.
So who was Mahmood Ghaznvi? Who took responsibility?
Hmm... from the names of people arrested... i have a feeling that this was an inside job.....
How often our leaders, spoke person and other people talk about Babri Bosque incident, Gujrat riots etc but ignore what happens in our own country. No doubt the incidents happening in India should strongly be voiced and condemned. But people who do not raise voice and condemn what is happening in minorities of their own country loose the right to raise voice and condemn what is happening with the minorities of other countries.
Nearly all such incidents are happening in the sinned province been ruled for six nasty years by the "liberal" "modern" "secular" wadera corruption party