Pak Hindus` ashes immersed |
Carrying the `asthi kalash`, pots containing the ashes of the cremated, of 160 Pakistani Hindus, Ramnath Maharaj, a Karachi temple priest, is in India to immerse the ashes in the holy Ganga river at Haridwar.Maharaj, head priest of Panchmukhi Hanuman Temple, said to be 1,500 years old, is accompanied by his nephew Kabir Kumar. The ashes of these Pakistani Hindus will be immersed in the Ganga at Haridwar on September 24, the seventh day of Pitru Paksha, the day Hindus pay homage to their deceased and forefathers.The 160 asthi kalash was all that we could carry from Karachi. There are more than 40 other asthi kalash waiting at Sondari Shamshan (the cremation ground in Karachi. We could not carry them all because just two of us - out of 10 other priests and sewaks (helpers) - were granted visas. ,Since he was not granted permission to travel to Delhi, Ramnath said he went directly towards Haridwar from Punjab.Ramnath said most of the ashes were three to four years old and were waiting to be immersed in the Ganga.
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