LAHORE: The 970th three-day Urs of Saint Syed Ali bin Osman Al-Hajvery, popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh will begin in Lahore tomorrow.
In a press conference in Lahore on Saturday, Punjab Minister for Auqaf and Religious Affairs Mian Ata Muhammad Manika said that tight security arrangements have been made for the Urs.
Thousands of Muslim devotees across Pakistan will participate in the annual festivities at the shrine to pay their tribute to the saint. The Urs will start with traditional zeal with ‘chaddar’ laying ceremony at the shrine.
Data Ganj Bakhsh was a Persian Sufi and scholar during the 11th century. He was born in Ghazni, Afghanistan (990 AD) during the Ghaznavid Empire and settled and died in Lahore spreading Islam in South Asia.
