Calling the temple demolition incident in KP province an “international embarrassment” for the country, the Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered authorities to start the construction of the damaged Hindu shrine within Two weeks.

According to a report on Dawn, the Supreme Court also ordered the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) to submit the details of all functional and non-functional temples and Gurudwaras across the country in the court.

The 109-year-old Hindu shrine is the fourth holiest Hindu temple in Pakistan. In December last year, a mob led by radical clerics of an Islamist party first demolished the century-old temple and then burnt it down.

The video of the demolition soon went viral on the internet, creating a national and international uproar, especially in India.

The three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmad, pulled the state administration and bluntly told the EPTB chairman, “not to sit on the chairman’s post with (the) government mentality.”

“Your employees are doing business on the lands meant for Shrines, arrest them, and start the construction of the temple...You have to recover money from the people who did this..form this Maulvi (Maulvi Muhammad Sharif), and his followers.” the chief justice was quoted as saying by Dawn.

Inspector General of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Sanuallah Abbassi, admitted the “cowardice and negligence” showed by his 92 police officers who were present there at the time of demolition.

IG also informed a protest, near the site of the Shrine, was organized by radical hardline party JUI-F. Only one ulema, out of the total six, incited mob for demolition.