What would you give for a wish?
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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.
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PTI Sindh rejects Wahab as Karachi administrator
July 12, 2021
SUKKUR: After the disapproval of Governor Sindh Imran Ismail, the Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh has also opposed the possible move of PPP’s leadership to make Murtaza Wahab as the Karachi administrator.
In a statement on Sunday, Haleem Adil Sheikh said Murtaza Wahab has a pretty good face but is not capable of running the affairs of Karachi, asking him to better continue defending the corrupt practices of PPP leadership in TV talk-shows. He said Murtaza Wahab, who was rejected by the people in the general elections, could not be accepted for the top slot to run Katachi’s affairs, saying he had already been enjoying two portfolios in Sindh cabinet and making enough money like his other colleagues. He alleged being Sindh Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development, Wahab had miserably failed to take any action against those who had been polluting the river water and irr