Muhammad Arish Dawn TV + Shahzada Alamgir Daily Dawn
LAHORE: The three-day celebrations of the 981st Urs of Makhdoom Awwalia Syedna Hazrat Ali Hajwiri known as Data Ganj Bakhsh will begin today.
Urs celebrations will start formally with the ceremony of veiling at Mazar-e-Sharif, Senator Ishaq Dar will inaugurate the ritual of veiling and sail.
Administrator Data Darbar has told Dawn TV that well-known scholars will address spiritual gatherings at Jamia Masjid Data Darbar, while the gathering will continue on the second and third day of Urs.
He said that all the arrangements including anchorage, and security have been completed, and four thousand policemen have been deployed for security.
According to Shahzada Alamgir, a representative of Dawn TV from Lahore, on the occasion of the Urs of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh, a holiday was announced in the schools of Lahore on August 26. By the police, five DSPs 111 inspectors, and 900 wardens performed their duties. will