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.
The much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train was inaugurated in the month of October. AFP/File
LAHORE: The Punjab government highlights its achievements of 2020 and among them, the most prominent are making south Punjab secretariat functional, recruitment of doctors, launching the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development project and people’s assistance programme, constructing mother and child health hospitals, issuing health and medicine cards and other development programmes.
The Punjab government says the year 2020 was fateful for south Punjab as senior officials were posted in the South Punjab secretariat along with approval of the design of the secretariat building.
Up to 25,000 doctors and paramedics were recruited in the health department as well as recruitments of 10,000 police constables.