Benazir visits shrine in Sehwan

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DADU, Dec 14: Amid very busy and tiring schedule Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto made a three-hour journey from Karachi to Sehwan early on Friday morning to pay respect to the reverend Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.

She travelled in a caravan of five four-wheel drive vehicles and reached Sehwan at 4.30am.

She went into the mausoleum and remained there for about 10 to 12 minutes and recited the Holy Quran.

She ate a few rose petals from the wreaths placed on the tomb, as devotees here usually do with the belief that it would bring them good luck.

Ms Bhutto was surrounded by beggars outside the shrine, and she took out a bundle of Rs1,000 notes and obliged them. Apparently for security reasons, the visit had been kept secret and local PPP leaders, including those from the Dadu district, were unaware of it till the evening.

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