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Bari Imam's shrine, Islamabad
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Bari Imam's shrine, Islamabad

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Shrine at the foot of the Margalla hills of the saint of the Pothohar, Bari Imam.

Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi, known as Bari Imam (about 1617 – 1705), lived for years in the caves of the Margalla hills and settled at Nurpur Shahan, then a village and now a part of Islamabad.

His urs every spring brings dancers, qawwals and hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from across the Pothohar.

Bari Imam's shrine, Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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