The construction work on the Hindu temple has been started in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district. The historic Hindu temple had been vandalised by a mob led by a local cleric Maulana Sharifullah of JUI-F on December 30th after Sharifullah made an inflammatory speech at a local Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally and asked people to march on the temple. Read: Hindu community pardons accused in Karak temple attackTalking to The Express Tribune Minority MPA Wazir Zada said that the attack issue had been solved and all the people involved in Karak temple attack had been pardoned by the Hindu community due to the direct involvement of Chief Minister Mahmood Khan. Read more: Top court seeks timeline for Karak temple rebuildingTerri was a former princely state which is inhabited by Khattak Pakhtuns and Hindus in large number lived in the town in the past. Terri Samadi is attributed to a local yogi who used to meditate there and he breathed his last under a tree after which local Hindu families established a Samadhi in his memory.

Source: The Express Tribune April 12, 2021 07:52 UTC