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Ajmer shopkeepers to wash market
after Musharraf visit

The shopkeepers association of Ajmer's Dargah Bazar and Dhan Mandi on Friday decided to wash and clean the market place after the visit of Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf on July 16.

The association president Doulat Longani said that the move was in retaliation to the washing of the Minar-e-dargah in Lahore after the visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in February 1999.

"We are also anguished over the fact that Musharraf, as Pakistan army chief at that time, declined to salute Vajpayee and failed to attend the state banquet in his honour," Longani said.

Musharraf would be passing through the two markets on his way to the dargah of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti.

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