Targeting people of minority Hindu community has become a common thing in Pakistan. But do you know how many Hindu temples were there when the country was divided and Pakistan became a separate Islamic country? Today we will tell you how many Hindu temples were there in Pakistan and how many are left now.
Temples are attacked in Pakistan
By targeting minority Hindus in India’s neighboring country Pakistan. It has become a common thing to kill them and tamper with their religious places. Fundamentalists in Pakistan often target Hindu temples and try to demolish them. Many times such videos are shared on social media, in which fundamentalists are seen destroying photos of Hindu temples and deities.
How many temples in Pakistan?
Now the question is how many temples are there in Pakistan? According to the information, many temples had come in the part of Pakistan at the time of independence. But at present the number of temples in Pakistan is negligible. Because temples are being demolished in Pakistan since independence, not only this, the fundamentalists have even erased the trace of many temples.
Temples are being demolished in Pakistan
Even after so many years of independence from Pakistan, incidents of demolition of temples and attacks on people of Hindu community keep coming to light. Even today Hindu families are living there only under compulsion. According to Pakistan Hindu Rights Movement, when partition took place in 1947, there were 428 temples present in the Pakistani part. But by the 1990s, 408 temples had been converted into restaurants, hotels, government schools or madrassas.
Only so many Hindu temples survived
According to local people, Pakistan Dara Ismail Khan has built Taj Mahal Hotel in place of Kalibari Temple. In Bannu district of Pakhtunkhwa, a Hindu temple has been destroyed and a sweet shop has been opened there, while a school is now run in the Shiva temple of Kohat. According to the information, now only 22 Hindu temples are left in Pakistan. Sindh region of Pakistan has the maximum number of 11 temples. Apart from this, there are four temples in Punjab, four in Pakhtunkhwa and three in Balochistan. In these temples, people of the Hindu community living nearby worship and maintain them. Attacks on minorities still continue in Pakistan and they are forced to convert.
