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The devotees of Rajan Mast’s shrine in Sukkur give live donkeys in exchange for a wish
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SUKKUR:
The banks of the mighty River Indus and its tributaries have nourished human settlements for as long as human history stretches. It was the site where one of the world’s three original civilisations took root and in the centuries that followed, multiple thriving cultures, industries and economies were nourished.
But settlements and craft is not all the Indus has sustained. Along its banks emerged a rich spiritual tradition that finds little parallel elsewhere. In the myriad shrines that dot it, a rich Sufi culture centred on sons of the soil turned patron saints have flourished, and they in turn have birthed a new economy – a spiritual economy – in the cities and villages that surround them.
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar announced a new administrative division of the provincial capital will be established shortly. DawnNewsTV/File
LAHORE: Thanking the opposition for playing its democratic role in the discussion and approval of the provincial budget, fourth by the PTI government, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar announced a new administrative division of the provincial capital will be established shortly.
Speaking in the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday, he denied the impression that his government was ignoring Lahore. He said a sum of Rs86 billion had been earmarked for the provincial capital this year, other than the allocation made for the Orange Line train.