Pakistan: Man Demolishes Wall Of Proposed Krishna Temple, Proudly Posts Video On Facebook

A Pakistani man, purportedly a reporter with a news channel, has demolished the under-construction wall of the proposed temple in the capital city of Islamabad and posted the video on social media.

“By Allah’s grace, the construction of the temple has stopped,” he says. The video, watched around 6,000 times, was well-received by people as is evident from comments.

The man’s bio says he is a reporter with ‘99News hd plus’ news channel in Pakistan.

“Owing to successful efforts of 92 News, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) stopped the construction of a temple in Islamabad on Friday," the news channel said in a report titled "92 News Efforts Bear Fruit As CDA Stops Construction Of Temple In Islamabad".

This is the first time a Hindu temple is being built in Islamabad post-partition. A grant of Rs 10 crore Pakistani rupees was sanctioned for it by the current Imran Khan government. However, the proposal soon ran into criticism as Islamic clerics and even people in the government opposed it calling it “un-Islamic” and “against the spirit of Pakistan”.

A leading religious school in Pakistan issued a “fatwa”, or religious edict, against the construction of the temple.

Religious parties like Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) and Jamiat Ahle Hadith were also against it as according to them it was against Pakistan’s ideology.

Even as a Hindu member of the government, Lal Malhi, kept insisting that the temple would be built despite the opposition, its construction was halted on government orders on 3 July citing technicalities.

Islamabad is said to have around 3,000 Hindus.