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Publication: The Tribune
Date: October 15, 2000
Indraprasth, Oct 14 (Tribune
News Service) - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has demanded restoration of temple
and houses destroyed by a mob in an attack in the Dalbandhin area, 340
km from Quetta, on Wednesday.
In a letter to the High
Commissioner of Pakistan, the VHP secretary-general Dr Pravin Togadiya,
also demanded apology to the affected minority community and prevention
of such incidents in future.
Lodging strong protest
over the ''inhuman and cowardly'' act, the VHP said a mob of over 5,000
Muslim clerics put on fire a Hindu temple and torched several houses on
Wednesday afternoon. The mob was reacting to an illiterate Hindu
woman distributing ''prasad'' wrapped in a religious curriculum book called
Deeniyat.
