KARACHI, June 24: Sardar Hira Singh, chief of Sri Guru Nanak Satsang Sabha, a Sikh organization, has called for the implementation in totality of a court order with regard to the sealing off of a disputed temple at Arambagh.
Addressing a press conference at the temple here on Friday, he maintained that the mater of the temple’s ownership was pending a verdict and Sikhs, being a peaceful community, would accept whatever would be the final verdict.
He referred to a court order issued a few days back that the temple be sealed off till the dispute Sikh and Hindu communities over the ownership of the temple was resolved, and apprehended that that the administration might not implement the order in totality.
Expressing the Sikh community’s concern, he recalled that in 1990s also the court had ordered the temple to be sealed off but only those portions of the temple had been sealed off that had been in possession of the Sikh community while the remaining ones, in possession of Hindu community, had not been sealed off.
This time, the Sikh community would resist such a biased move, he said.
The Sardar said his organization was in touch with the Sikh organizations in other countries, as well as Sardar Mahinder Singh Rathore, coordinator of the Sikh organizations in the United Kingdom. “Sardar Rathore has spoken to the Deputy Speaker of the Sindh Assembly, Rahila Tiwana, and is approaching certain other officials in Islamabad on the issue.”
He cautioned that if the apprehensions of Sikh community about a discriminatory treatment in the implementation of the court order proved correct, it would create a wrong impression locally and internationally.
