Cathing up tempo what BJP led Modi government in India have had for non Hindu religion community Pakistan sailed in same boat and demolished an old Hanuman temple in Lyari, Karachi.
 
Also in Pakistan they demolished were the homes of about 20 Hindu families that lived near the temple.
 
This religions animosity set up by BJP led Modi government also catches up with Turkey and round the same time they were also converting the historic Chora church of Istanbul into a mosque,
 
After Hindus from the locality in Pakistan gathered around the rubble of the ancient temple and protested, police made investigations and sealed the area.
 
Pakistani newspaper, The Express Tribune reported that Lyari’s Assistant Commissioner Abdul Karim Memon has ordered a probe against the builder who has demolished the temple.
 
Locals said that a builder had allegedly purchased the land around the temple and wanted to build a residential complex.
 
Though he had promised the Hindus that the temple would not be touched, he demolished the temple and Hindu homes amid a coronavirus induced lockdown.
Interestingly, the South Deputy Commissioner Irshad Ahmed Sodhar told The Express Tribune that there had been two temples earlier, but one had been removed earlier.
 
Promising justice, Sodhar said: “A committee will be formed for the purpose, including an archaeologist, and the probe will be completed within seven days. We will ensure that everyone will get justice.”
 
Brick by brick, Pakistan has been getting rid of its Hindu heritage. Its Hindu minority – a handful in number, lies battered in a few pockets under the fear of conversions and kidnappings of women. With every passing year, the numbers have been dwindling.
 
Since the partition of India in 1947, Pakistan has made vigorous efforts to shake off thousands of years of rich Hindu, Jain and Buddhist history that dominated the region before Islam took roots as Haroon Khalid writes in this baleful feature “How archaeology in Pakistan is forced to deny the nation’s Hindu past”. Even hard evidence in the form of archaeology is made evasive and forced to twist in deference to Islam.