Zardari's donation to Ajmer shrine sets off unending dispute: Report
The organisations are undergoing differences over the entitlement of the donation.
Zardari had made the donation for the upkeep of the shrine of the revered Muslim Sufi saint. He had visited the shrine after his luncheon meeting with Indian Premier Manmohan Singh.
A few days back, a senior official of the Pakistani High Commission in India visited Ajmer to resolve the dispute and met with the management. The meeting, however, did not yield any outcome and the matter remained unsettled.
The official, Abrar Ahmed, met with officials of the shrine committee and the association representing the servants, and indicated that the amount will be given at a ceremony on August 18.
President of Syed Zadgan Association Hassamuddin said that traditionally, all the grants come to the organisation and that if their rights are violated, the association will reconsider attending the ceremony.
But the shrine committee’s head Sohail Khan said that not only the committees' act, but the Supreme Court supports their stance. Khan stated that he had forwarded a copy of the act and the Supreme Court’s verdict to the Pakistani High Commission.
He also revealed that the committee had forwarded the projects they had devised for the shrine’s facelift and that if they get the amount, they will spend it on the purpose.
However, interestingly, Zardari’s attendant in the shrine, Iqbal Kaptaan said that he supports the association because, he said, donations are the association’s right.
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Hope he donates to temples also. And if he rebuilds all the temples[ almost 500] which were destroyed in Afghanistan and restores the Buddha statues of Bamiyan, he will become the most powerful man in the world.
Donation or Sadaqa in Ramazan for the poor and needy always is better served than if the money was used for bigger personal bungalow or newer model of certain foreign car. Five Crore he can make in an hour by selling one of his apartments in Karachi, that's is not a big deal for him or the country. But it defenitely is big deal for the poor at Ajmer Shareef. We in our daily life hold money from necessaties for giving gift for that certain occasion, thats not so cruel. After all he was visiting Ajmir and he should have given some gift to the poor and the needy their from all of us in Pakistan. I wish he had claimed "Here is a gift from the people of Pakistan" only if it was intended as a diplomatic gesture, otherwise they can thank only him.
Zardari has no any money for poor Pakistani nation, poor patients in the hospitals, needy Somalians with less food and this act of donating $1m to only a shrine proves and shows that Zardari has $60m in his Swiss bank' accounts.... Or this huge amount of money would be given from Pakistan's national treasury. In both cases the situation has been been cleared that either Zardari gave this donation from his own pocket or from Pakistan's national treasury????? Now this has been obligatory for Manmohan Singh to donate the same money for Garhi Khuda Bukhsh.........
He donated from his swiss accounts or british accounts zakaath fund??
If Zardari made this donation from personal resources, I am ok with it but would question where he got it based on his declared income for last 20 years.
If from government resources, who the _ told him he could dish out money raised from the tax I pay ?
@Malik actually this donation was made from his own pocket. Had it been from tax payers money your uncles would have been jumping up and down.
50 Millions can be used on building some school or college in Nawab shah area or can be used on scholarship for some poors children. what a wast of money on kabar pooja.
Generally I have favorable view of PPP, but Zadari should not have given tax payers money to any religious organizations etc, to fulfill his personal spiritual need he must spend from his own pocket.
Wherever this 'thing' goes, he leaves trouble and frustration behind him.
and people die day in day out in karachi waziristan ... and people commit suicide while we tend to shrine ...really .. better of to build a dam or electricity so that humans may have something to eat
@Malik: Surprisingly, both the waring parties never bothered to ask about the source of the donation, whether personal or public. If personal, then no need of consulate official to involve. If it is public they should never accept it, nor the Indian govt can allow that.
actual there is only one religion which is universal and omni present "money"........people fake themselves as following one religion or other
The Dargah should return this money because it was the tax payer's money, not belonging to Zardari
You can see unity among all the religions here - not one is immune from such problems where people squabble over money
There is one more famous dargah in Nagoor part of Southern India. Interestingly more Hindus visit the dargah and lot of offerings are made in fulfillment of their prayers. The following link will provide more information http://www.nagoredargah.com/
It is sad that the dargah has become a fiefdom for the clerics and the khaadims. Thsi si not their money. This money belongs to the pilgrims of the dargah who come to garibnawaz. Shame on the respective associations of Ajmer to create a controversy out of a noble gesture by President Zardari. Also I am stunned by the usual silence of the PM of India,