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Linus Strothmann is a PhD German Lecturer. He authored book “Managing Piety, the Shrine of Data Ganj Bakhsh”.

He visited Lahore in 2009 & highlighted that shrine was all about building votes & point scoring by Chairman of religious purpose committee Ishaq Dar and

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Auqaf Minister Ishanuddin Quereshi and CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif. The author did his PhD on Data Durbar Shrine and he writes that even show keeping contracts were mired in corruption. He further writes that
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It’s about building votes, point scoring. One employee was wife of the cousin of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Mian Shahbaz Sharif. Even ‘Jahez fund’ they gave only to own political workers.

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Actually when they (PMLN) send their people to have an inquiry whether they (the applicants) are deserving or not, they go there and they ask about their economic condition as well as their political views. So they recommend or reject on basis the political views.
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Secondly, there was a woman, a MPA from Shahdara (a suburb of Lahore). All the other women of the committee decided not to give money to the persons she had recommended, because they were of the opinion that she was obliging her jurisdiction area.
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The central aim of this study is to understand why and how the shrine is used to facilitate the state’s and non-state actors’ various interests.

From the book #ManagingPiety #100books2020

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The sources of income at Data Darbar.

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Khateeb Imam is BPS-18 Officer with the highest pay scale at Data Darbar.

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For detailed thread

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