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Rahul
Gandhi in Ajmer
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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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Vasundhara
Raje Chief minister of Rajasthan
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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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Bangladesh's
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
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Late Prime Minister of India Rajiv
Gandhi
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Sanjay Gandhi
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President of India
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