{"id":14724,"date":"2016-02-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/02\/26\/ancient-hindu-temple-in-peshawar-being-secretly-demolished\/"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:00:00","slug":"ancient-hindu-temple-in-peshawar-being-secretly-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/02\/26\/ancient-hindu-temple-in-peshawar-being-secretly-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Hindu temple in Peshawar Being Secretly Demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report-ancient-hindu-temple-in-peshawar-being-secretly-demolished-2181478\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PAKISTAN, February 25, 2016 (DNA, India): An ancient Hindu temple in this northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar is being demolished secretly in the name of repair with a commercial plaza set to come up on its land. They said the process started some 10 days ago and is going on without any hindrance. &#8220;There is no action from any of the government departments which are supposed to protect such buildings,&#8221; the resident said. There is no action by the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), Auqaf Department dealing with the non-Muslim properties and the Archaeology Department &#8212; the departments tasked with protecting such properties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Either these departments are a partner in the crime or they are negligent,&#8221; a resident said. Demanding an immediate halt to the demolition process, the residents asked ETPB Chairman Saddique-ul-Farooq to order a probe into the issue to bring to justice the government officials whose negligence or tacit approval had put in danger the ancient Hindu temple. The Civil Society members, in a statement, said this is a painful story in all major cities of Pakistan where speculative land mafia in collusion with lower-tier government officials and police get away with destroying Pakistan&#8217;s precious heritage. The government is reduced to being a silent spectator in this demolition, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PAKISTAN, February 25, 2016 (DNA, India): An ancient Hindu temple in this northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar is being,&#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-14724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724","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=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}