Hindu temple's statues destroyed in Pakistan's Karachi
The statues of deities at a Hindu temple in this Pakistani city have been destroyed, the police said on Tuesday, the latest incident of vandalism against the places of worship of the minority community in this country.
The incident took place at the Narayan Mandir in Karachi's old city of Narainpura on Monday evening, they said.
A man, identified as Muhammad Waleed Shabbir, has been arrested for damaging the statues of the deities, a senior police officer official, Sarfaraz Nawaz, said.
"He was arrested on complaint of a Hindu man, Mukesh Kumar, who with his wife was at Narayan Mandir for prayers when they saw this man damaging the statues of Hindu deities with a hammer," he said.
An eyewitness said that angry Hindus, who were at temple, caught hold of miscreant and handed him over to police. Later, the Hindu residents of the area staged a protest outside police station, demanding government to provide security to Hindus. They also raised slogans and protested that they were feeling insecure in the area after the incident.
The area is mostly inhabited by poor and low-income Hindu families who have been living in Narainpura for decades. The police and Pakistani Rangers reached the spot and cordoned off the area.
Sindh's Minister for Minority Affairs Gyanchand Israni said that a case should be registered. He said that such incidents create unrest in the society."We condemn such attacks," he said.
Another Hindu resident said that there were lots of Hindu families in area and they had never seen such an incident and there had never been any incident of Hindu-Muslim tension in area."We are labourers and very poor people.
We do not harm anyone and always pray people will respect our worship places too," he said. The police official said that they were investigating motive behind incident. The videos of broken holy statues were seen circulating on social media.
(Source : The Pioneer)
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