Religious parties say building temple in Islamabad against Pakistans ideology.

ISLAMABAD -- A few religious factions on Wednesday denounced the governments move of building temple in Islamabad and termed it against Pakistans ideology.

The religious parties also announced that they would take up the issue in the Federal Shariat Court.

In a joint press conference in Islamabad, leaders of different religious parties said that building a temple on the taxes of Muslims cant be tolerated in Pakiatan.

While addressing the media the Chief of Jamiat Ulema e Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Islamabad chapter Maulana Abdul Hameed Hazarvi said that they were going to raise the issue in the Shariat Court.

He stated that the incumbent government has lost its way as they had spent billions on Kartarpur Corridor and now they were going to build a temple in the capital city of the country.

Meanwhile, the leader of Central Jamiat Ahlihadees Kashif Chudhry said that building of a temple was nothing more than playing with the feelings of 220 million people of the country.

He stated that building a new temple in Islamabad was beyond thinking as there was already a temple built in Said Pur Village near Islamabad.

On the occasion, Maulana Tanvir Alvi said that all the sects of Islam were agreed upon a point that no temple or church can be...

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