Srinagar, Jun 28 : Former ‘Sadr-e-Riyasat’ Dr. Karan Singh, accompanied by his daughter, visited the revered Charar-i-Sharief shrine on Sunday and offered a chaadar and donation.
He said his visit, along with National Conference President Dr. Farooq Abdullah’s recent visit to the Kheer Bhawani shrine, symbolised Kashmir’s centuries-old tradition of communal harmony.
According to details available with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Dr. Karan Singh visited the famous Charar-i-Sharief shrine, where he offered a ‘chaadar’ and donation.
At the shrine, the local priest prayed for Dr. Singh’s health and well-being and recalled that several generations of his family had visited the shrine.
“One of them said that my father had tied a green ribbon here praying for a son and returned to untie it after I was born,” Dr. Singh said.
He also expressed happiness at seeing the rebuilt ziarat, which was reconstructed after the shrine was set ablaze in 1995 by foreign agents, reducing it to ashes except for the sacred grave.
Dr. Singh also said that Dr. Farooq Abdullah’s recent visit to the Kheer Bhawani shrine and his own visit to Charar-i-Sharief reflected Kashmir’s centuries-old tradition of interfaith harmony.—(KNO)
