What would you give for a wish?
T-Magazine
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.
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LAHORE: Unesco has offered the Punjab government services of internationally acclaimed experts on archaeology for better conservation and restoration of heritage sites. This offer was extended.
LAHORE:Unesco has offered the Punjab government services of internationally acclaimed experts on archaeology for better conservation and restoration of heritage sites.This offer was extended during.
75 more test corona positive in Bahawalpur
National
BAHAWALPUR: As many as 75 more people tested corona positive in the district on Tuesday.
According to focal person for coronavirus Dr Muhammad Zakir, total corona positive cases in the district remained 769 as 85 corona positive patients had been recovered while in Nawab Sir Sadiq Muhammad Abbasi, 102 corona patients were admitted and 23 patients were on ventilators due to their critical condition.
3 KILLED IN ACCIDENTS: Three people were killed in as many road accidents on Tuesday. An unidentified woman was crushed to death by a vehicle near Marri Mian Sahib near Bahawalnagar. In the second road accident near Fruit Market of Haroonabad, a motorcyclist died on the spot and three others sustained injuries after a collision between two motorbikes.In the third accident at M-5 Motorway near Jhangrra Sherqi Interchange near Uch Sharif, a Lahore-bound car was hit by a trailer. As a result, a car rider died on the spot and four others