NEW DELHI: India’s top court set up a mediation team on Friday to try to settle a land dispute between Muslims and Hindus over plans to build a Hindu temple on a site where hard-liners demolished a 16th century mosque. A retired Supreme Court judge will head the panel. If the mediation bid fails, the Supreme Court will settle the dispute. Hindu hard-liners say they want to build a new temple to Hindu god Ram on the site, which they revere as his birthplace. They say the 16th century Babri Mosque was built after a temple dedicated to the Hindu god was destroyed by Muslim invaders.

Source: Pakistan Today March 08, 2019 07:41 UTC