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The provincial government Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in northwestern Pakistan, declared national heritage the former Hindu religious site of Panj Tirath in Peshawar.
Panj Tirath, which takes its name from the five water basins present, also contains a temple and a lawn with date palms. The five basins of the heritage site are now Chacha Yunus Park and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The KP Department of Archeology and Museums issued a notification stating that the land belonged to Panj. Tirath Park as a heritage site.
It is believed that Pandu, the mythical king of the Mahabharata, belonged to this region and that Hindus came to bathe in these pools during the month of Karteek and prostrate themselves for two days under the trees.
The site was damaged during the reign of the Afghan Durrani Dynasty in 1747, but was restored by local Hindus during the Sikh rule in 1834 and the cult resumed.
The government also announced an additional fine. a jail sentence of $ 2 million and five years to anyone found guilty of damaging the historic site.
The Department of Archeology asks Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's government to clean the site of encroachments and to allow the aeologists to carry out essential preservation work. He also asked for the construction of a wall around the site.
First published: January 03, 2019 19:23 IST
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