Dr Darakhshan welcomes Amarnath Yatris at Baltal

Srinagar, June 30: Chairperson of J&K Waqf Board Dr Syed Darakhshan Andrabi today welcomed Shri Amarnath Ji pilgrims at Baltal at an enthusiastic reception event held there.

Acccording to a press release, many respectable citizens from the district and other parts of the valley joined Dr Darakhshan in according a warm welcome to Yatris reaching the base camp. She addressed the impressive gathering of the devotees and the locals and said that despite the decades of unrest in J&K, the local populace always participated in welcoming and taking care of the needs and requirements of the devotees visiting from far of places in huge numbers. "Amarnath Yatra is a symbol of mutual trust and communal harmony in Kashmir. It has always remained the annual season of reiteration of the bonding and trust between the local majority community and the devotees visiting the holy shrine," said Dr Darakhshan. She said that “we all should enthusiastically invest in such type of positive initiatives strengthening the bonding between communities so that we are able to create a peaceful, tolerant society in this land of diversities and spiritual excellence.”