On the night of 13 August, the police station chief of Lahore’s Mozang quarter evidently masterminded an attack on a historic gurdwara built by Guru Arjan Dev. All the score or so Sikh men and women inside this gurdwara, which stood only fifteen yards from the Mozang police station, were killed and the shrine burnt down. The attack was carried out by about thirty Muslim youths led by ‘a devout Khaksar’, as Taj Din, the leader, called himself while admitting his involvement in an interview with a contemporary scholar in the year 2000.100
