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  • Sunday Prayer – Mast Qalandar!

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    Nicholas Schmidle relates his experience at the annual three-day festival marking the death of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar at Smithsonian.com.  Every year, a few hundred thousand Sufis converge in Seh- wan, a town in Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province for the festival. In the desert swelter of southern Pakistan, the scent of rose­water mixed with a waft of…