Priest from India Proposed for Katas Raj Temples in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, February 18, 2007: Discussions are underway to bring a priest from India to care for the ancient Katas Raj temples in Pakistan's Punjab province. The various ideas include bringing priests every year or on monthly or bimonthly basis, or a priest that could be posted at the temples, but who could spend the week in the Hindu community of Lahore and come to the temples every Sunday and for special worship days. Recently the temple was bustling with activity as hundreds of Hindu pilgrims came to worship during Sivaratri. Sardari Lal Gosvami, secretary general of the Temple Council of India, Sanatam Dharam Pertindhti Sabha Punjab, said efforts are underway to bring a priest from India. He said the only problems they were facing were a long-term visa for the priest and that there was no Hindu community near the temples (HPI note: ...a testament to the thoroughness of the "ethnic cleansing" in post-partition Pakistan).