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Building of Gurdwara Sahib Demolished in Thoha Khalsa village near Rawalpindi in Pakistan

By Sikh Siyasat Bureau

August 28, 2017

Rawalpindi, Pakistan: It is learnt that the building of a Sikh Gurdwara Sahib was demolished in Thoha Khalsa near Rawalpindi in Pakistan. A journalist named Shiraz Hassan extended this information over micro-blogging network Twitter.

Just got the sad news that an abandoned #Sikh Gurdwara at Thoha Khalsa was razed to ground by some culprits. #Rawalpindi #Pakistan pic.twitter.com/FjKIQpVVbJ

— Shiraz Hassan (@ShirazHassan) August 27, 2017

As per Shiraz Hassan’s Twitter profile, he is a BBC multimedia journalist, a feature writer and photographer.

Sikhs had left Thoha Khalsa village in March 1947 after suffering a grave massacre in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed by Muslims and around 90 Sikh women, who had jumped in a well to save their honour had drowned to death.