New Delhi, INDIA: President of India's Congress party Sonia Gandhi (C) poses
behind a Chaddar (ceremonial religious drape) before sending it to Ajmer for the
annual Urs festival, 20 July 2007. Thousands of pilgrims are converging
on the town of Ajmer in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan for the annual
Urs (Birth anniversary) festival at the mausoleum of the Sufi saint, Khwaja Moinuddin
Chishti, revered by members of all religions.
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Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari...
New Delhi, INDIA: Former Indian
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (2L) hands over a Chaadar religious cloth
to Muslim leaders during a meeting at his residence in New Delhi, 15 July 2007.
The Chaadar is scheduled to be offered at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Rajasthan
on the occasion of the 795th Urs death anniversary of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin
Chisti.
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AJMER,
INDIA: Former Prime minister of Pakistan Meer Gafar Ullah Jamali (C) pays a visit
at the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty in Ajmer, in India's northwestern state
of Rajasthan, 17 February 2007. Jamali offered roses and a velvet chadder
at the Sufi Shrine.
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leader of the opposition Sh...
AJMER, INDIA: Bangladesh's leader of the opposition
Sheikh Hasina Wajed offers prayers at the Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Sufi Shrine
in Ajmer, in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan, 22 June 2006. Accompanied
by a few family members, Hasina offered flowers and prayers at Ajmer's renowned
Dargah. 
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AJMER, INDIA: Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf (C), is accompanied
by the Pakistani information minister Sheikh Rashid (L) and the Pakistani foreign
minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, on his arrival at the Shrine of a revered Indian
Sufi Saint in Ajmer, in India's western state of Rajasthan, 16 April 2005.
'Please let our prayer for peace, harmony and amity between Pakistan and India
and prosperity of both the countries be answered,' he wrote in the visitor's book
at the tomb of Persian Sufi holyman Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti. Musharraf is in
India on a three-day visit and during his stay he is scheduled to watch the sixth
and final one-day cricket match between India and Pakistan in New Delhi on 17
April.
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| AJMER,
INDIA: Pakistan's self-exiled former prime minister Benazir Bhutto (C) does
some shopping 01 April 2005 in Ajmer, in India's western state of Rajasthan,
where she came to offer prayers at the shrine of a revered Indian Sufi saint.
Bhutto said she hoped to return to the country soon 'after the return of democracy'. 
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Late Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
INDIRA GANDHI
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Late Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
RAJIV GANDHI
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Sanjay Gandhi
SANJAY GANDHI
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President of India
PRESIDENT
OF INDIA
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