Land approved for Hindu, Sikh communities’ cremation grounds in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Peshawar, February 17 (PTI) The caretaker cabinet of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in its first meeting on Friday, approved the transfer of approximately two acres of government land to the Auqaf department for the construction of cremation grounds for Hindus and Sikhs in the province.

At a meeting chaired by caretaker chief minister Muhammad Azam Khan, the caretaker cabinet approved the transfer of government land to the Auqaf Department for the construction of one Shamshon Ghat (cremation ground) each in the Peshawar and Nowshera districts for the Hindu and Sikh communities and a little less than half an acre for Christian graveyards in the Kohat district of the province.

The caretaker cabinet approved the transfer of two acres of government land for the minority communities.