Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n“The Evacuee Trust Property Board, which looks after\nthe holy places of minorities in Pakistan, has opened Shawala Teja Singh temple\nafter the partition on the demand of the local Hindu community,” ETPB\nspokesperson Amir Hashmi told PTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said since there was no Hindu population earlier residing\nin the city the temple was closed for worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The temple was partially damaged during attacks on\ntemples here in reaction to Babri Mosque in 1992,” he said, adding that\nthe ETPB carried out restoration work of the temple on the direction of Board\nchairman Dr Amir Ahmed recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ETPB Deputy Director Fraz Abbas told PTI that the\nrestoration work of this temple is still underway and the board is expected to\ncomplete it shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The temple has been opened for worship for the first\ntime since partition. Some 2,000 Hindus are residing in this locality and they\nare so happy to visit their centuries-old worship place. Now a good number of\nlocal Hindus are visiting it. Hindus from other parts of the country are also\nexpected to visit this temple,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abbas said the visiting Indian Hindus will also be taken to\nthis temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Local Hindu leaders Rattan Laal and Rumaish Kumar have\nwelcomed the government’s step to restore the temple and open it for the\nminority community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hindus form the biggest minority community in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to official estimates, 75 lakh Hindus live in\nPakistan. However, according to the community, over 90 lakh Hindus are living\nin the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Majority of Pakistan’s Hindu population is settled in Sindh\nprovince where they share culture, traditions and language with their Muslim\nfellows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan opened a 1,000 year old Shawala Teja Singh temple in eastern city Sialkot for “worship” for the first time since partition on the demand of the local Hindu community. The temple is located in city’s congested Dhaarowal locality, some 100-km from Lahore, is more than 1,000 years old, according to the book ‘History of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[58,305],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-international-current-affairs","tag-shawala-teja-singh-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}