{"id":10588,"date":"2011-10-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/30\/pakistani-high-court-verdict-historical-hindu-temple-to-reopen-doors\/"},"modified":"2011-10-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:00:00","slug":"pakistani-high-court-verdict-historical-hindu-temple-to-reopen-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/30\/pakistani-high-court-verdict-historical-hindu-temple-to-reopen-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani High Court Verdict: Historical Hindu Temple to Reopen Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/277927\/high-court-verdict-historical-hindu-temple-to-reopen-doors-this-diwali\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, October 20, 2011: In a country fraught with incidents of discrimination against minorities, a 160-year-old Hindu temple in Peshawar is preparing to welcome worshippers after 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Goraknath Temple, situated in the city&#8217;s archaeological complex Gor Kattri, opens for worship on the Hindu festival of Diwali.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In accordance with the September 15 verdict of the Peshawar High Court, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Department of Archaeology handed over the temple&#8217;s keys to Phoolvati and her son Kaka Ram last week,&#8221; their attorney Pervez Iqbal told The Express Tribune. A provincial minister joins the reopening ceremony of the temple, said Iqbal who spent almost a decade pursuing protracted litigation to win custody of the temple on behalf of Phoolvati.<\/p>\n<p>Although Phoolvati and her son are now custodians of the temple, authorities have barred them from renovating the building, saying it is &#8216;protected&#8217; property and changes cannot be made to it.<\/p>\n<p>But Iqbal says the temple has suffered from six decades of neglect and is in dire need of basic renovation. &#8220;The temple&#8217;s holy well is clogged with garbage and needs to be cleaned. Some years ago, authorities encroached upon the temple&#8217;s property to construct a park,&#8221; Iqbal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, October 20, 2011: In a country fraught with incidents of discrimination against minorities, a 160-year-old Hindu temple,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}