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[Martin Ripa]

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Pakistan police probe relic theft - Prophet Muhammad's shoes
stolen

Thursday, 1 August, 2002, 15:19 GMT 16:19 UK

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/728166/posts

Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore are investigating the
theft of a pair of shoes believed to have belonged to the
Prophet Mohammad.

A police official told the BBC that the sacred relic was
stolen from a glass case inside the Badshahi Mosque, built
in 1673 during the Moghul period.

The glass case was found broken and empty by a house keeper
on Wednesday night, he said.

The shoes were one of the historic exhibits on display to
the public inside the mosque, which is visited by dozens of
people every day from Pakistan and abroad.

Punjab Minister for Religious Affairs, Ghulam Sarwar Qadri,
said the government would hold an inquiry into the theft,
which he said was either the result of a conspiracy or due
to negligence by mosque staff.

Charged emotions

BBC correspondent Shahid Malik in Lahore says the relic is
highly venerated by Muslims and the theft is the first
incident of its kind in Pakistan.

The shoes are said to have been presented to the emperor
Tamerlane on the conquest of Damascus in 1400.

They were eventually brought to the sub-continent, along
with other relics, in the 16th century, during the early
Moghul period.

Lahore City District Mayor Mian Amer Mahmood said the
burglary was an attempt to destabilise the government, but
he did not elaborate.

Relics of the Prophet Mohammad and their preservation evoke
intense emotions in the sub-continent.

Holy hair

In 1964, a lock of hair believed to belong to the Prophet
was stolen from the Muslim shrine of Hazrat Bal in Srinagar
in Indian-administered Kashmir.

That led to widespread rioting in the disputed territory,
with many Muslims believing that Indian authorities, who are
mostly Hindu, had masterminded the theft of the relic.

The ensuing violence lasted several months and spread across
the sub-continent until the lock of hair was eventually
returned, although it was never established by whom.

In March, the relic was again at the centre of unrest in
Indian-administered Kashmir after an Indian politician
questioned its authenticity.

Muslim students held three days of protests after politician
Vinay Katiar was reported as saying that the hair had
actually belonged to a Hindu holy man.

[Jack Stone]

"Martin Ripa" <marti...@atlas.cz> wrote in message
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>
> Starsi zprava, ale zajimava - vypada to ze cesti turiste uz
> objevili Pakistan ;-)))))))
>
>
> Pakistan police probe relic theft - Prophet Muhammad's shoes
> stolen

Pokud to ovsem byly Mohamedovy boty :-)
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