ZHOB: A 200-year-old temple has been handed over to the Hindu community in Quetta.
The four-room temple building had been used by the government as a public school for 30 years. After the orders, the school has been shifted to another place.
Until now the local Hindu community used a mud building as a place of their worship.
A plaque at the gate of the temple had 1929 written on it, implying that the temple was about 100 years old. However, the Hindu community claimed that it was twice as old since the gate was constructed almost a century after the temple was built in the last part of the Maratha reign.
The temple is 200 years old and that after the creation of Pakistan majority of the Hindu community people had migrated to India from Zhob, but still a sizeable number of them lived in the city.
For the last 30 years, the temple building had been used as a government school where around 600 students were studying.
The initiative of returning the temple to the Hindu community back was taken by Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court Jamal Khan Mandokhel. He was requested by the community to consider the matter.
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