A Hindu temple changed into vandalised in Karachi’s Orangi region on Wednesday, the contemporary assault in opposition to the locations of worship of the minority network in Pakistan.
The idols of deities at Shri Mari Maata Mandir in Karachi’s Korangi region have been attacked. The temple is positioned in “J” region withinside the limits of Korangi police station. After getting information, the police reached the region and inspected the temple and inquired approximately the incident.
The Express Tribune newspaper stated that the incident induced panic and worry a few of the Hindu network residing in Karachi, mainly withinside the Korangi region in which police have been deployed to keep away from any untoward incident.
Sanjeev, a Hindu resident of the region, instructed the newspaper that six to 8 people on bikes got here into the region and attacked the temple. “We do not know who has attacked and why,” he stated, including that the police have been approached to hotel a case.
“Five to 6 unknown suspects entered the temple and escaped after vandalising it,” Korangi SHO Farooq Sanjrani confirmed. He delivered that the case changed into being registered in opposition to the unknown suspects who attacked the temple.
Temples belonging to the minority Hindu populace in Pakistan are regularly the goal of mob violence. In October, a historic temple positioned on the financial institution of the Indus River in Kotri changed into allegedly desecrated through unidentified human beings.
Law enforcement corporations got here to the scene quickly after the information of the incident went viral on social media. An FIR of the incident changed into lodged on the Kotri police station in opposition to the unknown miscreants.
Local citizens stated that an unidentified individual entered the temple premises and vandalised the idols in their deities after midnight.
In August, dozens of human beings reportedly vandalised a Hindu temple withinside the city of Bhong and blocked the Sukkur-Multan Motorway after an eight-year-vintage Hindu boy, who allegedly urinated in a neighborhood seminary, changed into granted bail through a neighborhood court.
Following the court’s decision, a mob of younger guys accumulated and vandalised the Shree Ganesh Hindu temple withinside the city, in line with the paper.
According to legitimate estimates, seventy five lakh Hindus stay in Pakistan. However, in line with the network, over ninety lakh Hindus are residing withinside the country. The majority of Pakistan’s Hindu populace is settled in Sindh province in which they percentage culture, traditions and language with Muslim citizens. They regularly bitch of harassment through extremists.