Hindu temple attacked with rocket launchers, another razed to ground in Karachi , Pakistan.

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A nearly 150-year-old Hindu Temple was demolished in Karachi, and another was attacked with rockets in Pakistan’s Sindh province. 

Seema Saxena | HENB | New Delhi | July 16. 2023:: Shockingly, two Hindu temples, including one built over 150 years ago, were desecrated within 24 hours in Pakistan’s Sindh province. In both places, the Islamist people did such a menace apparently with the help of the Pakistani Police and Administration. 

Temple demolished in Karachi

The first incident happened in Karachi on Saturday morning when the old Marie Mata Temple in Soldier Bazaar was razed to the ground.

Locals said the operation took place while the area was without electricity, said a report by Dawn newspaper.

Diggers and a bulldozer demolished the entire structure leaving only the outer walls and the temple’s main gate intact.

The residents alleged that police vehicles were present to provide “cover” to the men operating the machines, said the report by Dawn.

“It is a very old mandir. It is said to have been built over 150 years ago,” Shri Ram Nath Mishra, priest of another temple nearby said, adding: “The temple covered about 400 to 500 square yards and there had been talk of land grabbers having their eye on it”.

The mandir was under the management of the Madrasi Hindu community of Karachi, he added.

A Hindu temple, believed to be built nearly 150 years ago, has been demolished after being declared an old and dangerous structure in Karachi, the provincial capital of Pakistan’s Sindh province, leaving the Hindu community in shock. The Marie Mata Temple in Karachi’s Soldier Bazar was razed to the ground by bulldozers in the presence of a heavy contingent of police force late on Friday night.

“They (authorities) did it very early in the Saturday very early morning and we were not informed this was going to going to happen,” said Ram Nath Mishra Maharaj, who looks after old Hindu temples in the area.

Mishra, the caretaker of the nearby Shri Punch Mukhi Hanuman Mandir, said that the bulldozers left the outer walls and the temple’s main gate intact, but they demolished the entire inside structure.

Mishra said that the temple was built some 150 years ago and told stories that there was treasure buried beneath its courtyard.

He said that the temple, which covered some 400 to 500 square yards in the area, had been the target of land grabbers and developers for years now.

Old structure

Authorities had said the old structure was dangerous and might topple any day.

Due to this, the mandir management had temporarily moved most of the deities from the temple.

“But last night the Marie Mata Mandir was just flattened,” Mishra added.

The Hindu community has appealed to the Pakistan-Hindu Council, chief minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and the Inspector General of Sindh police to look into the matter.

Temple attacked with rockets in Kashmore

In the second incident which took place on Sunday, a gang of dacoits allegedly attacked a Hindu temple with “rocket launchers” in Sindh’s Kashmore region.

The assailants attacked the place of worship as well as adjoining homes belonging to the Hindu community, said a report by Dawn newspaper.

Locals said the men fired indiscriminately, prompting a police unit led by Kashmore-Kandhkot SSP Irfan Sammo to reach the scene.

The police official said the dacoits fired “rocket launchers” at the place of worship, which was closed during the attack. He added that it opens annually for religious services conducted by the Bagri community.

“The suspects fled from the scene after the attack. Police are conducting a search operation in the area,” said Sammo. Police estimate there were eight to nine gunmen invovled in the attack.

Dr Suresh, a member of the Bagri community, said the “rocket launchers” fired by the dacoits failed to explode, resulting in no loss of life.

Pakistan Human Rights Commission takes notice

Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said it was alarmed by reports of “deteriorating law and order in the districts of Kashmore and Ghotki in Sindh, where some 30 members of the Hindu community — including women and children — have allegedly been held hostage by organised criminal gangs”.

“Moreover, we have received disturbing reports that these gangs have threatened to attack the community’s sites of worship, using high-grade weapons,” the commission said, calling on the Sindh Home Department to investigate the matter without delay.

Did the incident of Ghotki happen

One Rights defender, Journalist and founding editor of  The Rise News, Veengas tweeted, “I spoke to the focal person from the Hindu community who denied that no such incident happened in Ghotki. But in the Kashmore incident reported.” 

No protest from Amnesty, HRW, UNHR, or India

Such violations of Human Rights including the Rights to worship in Pakistan and the plight of minority Hindus there have not been considered as the concern of the so-called Rights organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), UN Human Rights (UNHR) or even the neighbouring country India.

The Indian government may vote for the Muslims at the UNHRC by opposing the burning of the Koran in Sweden, but not at all have the ability to protest against the destruction and torture of Hindu temples in Pakistan.

Minority Hindus-Sikhs-Christians in Pakistan are facing the hardest existential challenge and the rest of the world is rejoicing in it!

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__Inputs from, PTI,  Dawn, TNN, and Veengas.