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Pak man loses job for polishing shoes at Golden Temple

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Posted On Friday, August 03, 2012 at 08:39:45 AM

Islamabad: A Pakistani official who sought to create inter-faith harmony by serving devotees in Sikh temples in Pakistan and India has lost his job. Mohammad Khursheed Khan, a deputy attorney general in Peshawar, was sacked by the federal government on Wednesday, The Dawn reported on Thursday.
 

File photo of Khursheed Khan polishing shoes at a gurudwara in Delhi

Another lawyer, Farooq Shah, was appointed in his place. In 2010, Khursheed Khan started community service at gurdwaras as a mark of solidarity with the Sikhs.

He later visited India with a Supreme Court lawyers’ delegation and offered community service at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and a gurudwara in New Delhi.

Currently in Nepal, Khursheed Khan told the Pakistani media on telephone that “some elements” were trying to oust him and vowed to spill the beans after returning to Pakistan.

Dawn said Khursheed Khan was “known for his unusual acts”. Before the 2002 general elections, he had fired at his hand as a mark of protest.

He was a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and was reportedly under pressure to withdraw in favour of an Awami National Party nominee. In 2007, he reportedly sprayed black paint on the face of advocate Ahmad Raza Kasuri.







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