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.