Daily Times

Hajra Bibi, of Muzaffargarh, has come from her village with a score of women to attend the Mela Chandar Pir in Cholistan on a tractor-trolley.

Thousands of devotees, mostly women, turn to the “Mela Chandar Pir”, a centuries-old festivity in the heart of Cholistan, Bahawalpur.

“Two years ago, I came here and prayed for a son,” says the 27-year-old woman in Seraiki.

“Six months ago, my son was born and I now am here at the shrine to pay gratitude.

Chandar Pir, a rich tomb of spiritual, cultural and traditional values located in the lost memories of the Hakara Valley in the heart of the Cholistan desert, has been the cause of fulfillment and spiritual happiness of people for thousands of years.

“Lunar Monday” is no less than a lighthouse in a society prone to social unrest, unrest, anxiety and depression.

The historical, traditional and cultural festival of Hazrat “Chandar Pir” begins on February 10 in Yazman, tehsil of the historic city of Bahawalpur, the former state of Bahawalpur. The highlight of the festival is that it lasts seven weeks on the fifth Thursday and the local holiday in division Bahawalpur falls on the fifth Saturday night in the historic desert of Cholistan. In the (spoilers), people play wonderful games and race. Kabaddi, wrestling and traditional shrimps are a treat for people to treat each other favorably and cooperatively with other caravans feeding and cooking traditional dishes. This is the only festival of the Bahawalpur Division in which people travel for hundreds of miles on foot, camel, bullock cart, horseback and tractor trolleys for hundreds of years. In the eleventh century CE, people started coming here and gradually the people came to form the festival.