LAHORE, Aug 23: Former chief ehtesab commissioner Mujaddad Mirza will inaugurate the three-day annual Ursof Hazat Shah Inayat Qadri, spiritual mentor of Bulleh Shah, by performing the chaddar laying ceremony at the mazar of the saint on Queens Road here on Sunday (today) afternoon.

Punjab Auqaf Department officials will participate in the inaugral ceremony of the Urs along with a large number of the devotees of the saint.

The annual Urs of sufi poet and saint Baba Bulleh Sha will begin at his shrine in Kasur from Tuesday, Aug 26.

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