A historical perspective of Babri Masjid dispute
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LAHORE: A nostalgic fly back into the history reveals that soon after the 491-year old Babri Masjid was demolished in 1992; resultantly communal riots had claimed between 2000 and 3000 lives throughout India. A series of bombings in Mumbai had then claimed 250 lives. The mounting Hindu-Muslim tensions had also resulted in the 2002 Gujarat unrest, which had claimed another 1000 lives though Muslims remained the major sufferers. On December 16, 1992, the `Justice Liberhan Commission` was set up by the government of India to probe the circumstances that had led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid. The commission had submitted its report to the-then Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, on...