Excelsior Correspondent
URI, July 8: Over 3,000 devotees attended annual Urs of Sufi Saint Baba Fareed-ud-Din Ganjshakar on a hill top in Hajipeer sector on the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri today.
The devotees from entire area of Uri attended the Urs at the Sufi shrine atop a hill. The devotees took a several hours journey to reach the shrine.
On the occasion 161 Infantry brigade organised a mobile medical camp at the shrine. The Commander of the 161 Infantry brigade, Brigadier G S Rawat, addressed the local populace and distributed books and gifts to children.
It is believed by locals that Baba Fareed-ud-Din Ganjshakar was born in 1173 or 1188 AD at Kothewal village, in Multan in the Punjab region of the Chauhan dynasty in what is now Pakistan.
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