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| AJK PM orders repair of minorities’ places of worship |
| 2019-01-30 |
| [DAWN] Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan on Monday ordered repair and rehabilitation of the worship places of minorities across the liberated territory. He gave this direction at a high level meeting after paying a visit to a Hindu temple in Madina Market in the heart of the city. According to officials, around 13-marla land, belonging to the pre-partition era temple, was allotted to a migrant from occupied Jammu several decades ago, in what many people believed was an unethical step on the part of the authorities dealing with allotment of evacuee property. Of all these years, hardly any step was taken by any department to ensure protection of this or any other worship place of non-Moslems. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the district administration and AJK’s staff-starved Tourism and Archaeology Department were alerted after the allottee started building shops on the entire land around the Madina Market temple. During the visit, premier Haider was told that a boundary wall was being erected on all four sides of the temple to protect it from further encroachments. The prime minister entered into the conical shape dome through a four feet high door to see for himself the condition of walls and roof from inside. He asked Director General Tourism and Archaeology Department Pirzada Irshad Ahmed and deputy commissioner Muzaffarabad Badar Munir, who were accompanying him on the occasion, to find experts of stone masonry for perfect repair and rehabilitation of the temple. He also asked them to contact Hindu community leaders in Pakistain to look into the possibility of giving the control of temple to them. |
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