Thousands of praying people including women and children on Saturday gave a message of peace and love to the Indian people living across the Sialkot Working Boundary.
They also left thousands of colourful balloons carrying peace messages and pigeons in the air towards India at the conclusion of three-day long annual celebrations of gala of Baba Chaambliyaanwala Sarkar, which concluded at the far-off bordering village of Parel-Masiyaal in Charwah Sector along the Sialkot Working Boundary.
During the concluding session, the people of Pakistan expressed high hopes and wished of a durable peace along the Sialkot Working Boundary.
A sea of humanity with the hope of peace along borders today was witnessed , which thronged the Indo-Pak border for the annual Chamliyal fair and to collect the holy sherbet and ‘Shakkar’ (soil) from the Dargah of the famous saint.
Thousands of people participated in the final prayers held there after the distribution of the sacred ‘Shakkar’, the soil, and sherbet among Pakistani people given to the Punjab Rangers by the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF).
The soil, named as ‘Shakkar’, is believed to have a miraculous curing effect on every kind of skin diseases, while the sherbet is used to mix the ‘Shakkar’ and apply it on the skin besides drinking, said the local devotees.
The people including women, children, young and old reached there after travelling long on motorcycles, cars, buses, vans, tongas, tractor trolleys and even by foot to participate in the concluding session today.
The drivers continued fleecing the devotees by overcharging their desired fairs without any fear. A long and massive traffic jam was also witnessed on the entire main and link roads leading to this venue. No traffic control arrangements were made by the Sialkot traffic police officials to handle this situation.
The three-day long Chamliyal fair was celebrated here with full fervour and joyfulness by the people of both sides in Ramgarh, India and Sialkot, Pakistan.
The local people were of the view that this fair is a living testimony for the Hindu-Muslim ties along the Sialkot Working Boundary that survived the scars of the partition. They added that the love and blessings of Baba replaced bullets and intermittent bangs of mortars by rhythmic beats of drums and devotional songs on the Indo-Pak border.