AMRITSAR: Pakistan is all set to open another historical Hindu temple after opening three important religious places, which has been shut since Partition, to Indian pilgrims this year.

The Panj Tirath temple in Peshawar , which is likely to be opened next month, is believed to be built on the site where Pandavas lived for a while during their exile. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has already declared the site a national heritage.

Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board chairman Aamir Ahmad told TOI that restoration work of the temple was being carried out. “We are going to inaugurate the temple in January,” he said.

This will be the second Hindu temple to be opened by the Pakistan government in the recent past. In October, Shivala Teja Singh, a temple estimated to be 1,000 years old, was opened in Sialkot for Hindu pilgrims.

Ahead of the opening of the Kartarpur corridor, Pakistan had opened Gurdwara Choa Sahib, which is situated close to Rohtas Fort, a Unesco World Heritage site, in Jhelum. In July, Pakistan had also opened another historical gurdwara, Gurdwara Khara Sahib in Gujranwala , which too was lying shut since the Partition.

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