{"id":1609,"date":"2025-10-18T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:30:08","slug":"poshak-bandi-held-at-charar-i-sharief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/poshak-bandi-held-at-charar-i-sharief\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Poshak Bandi\u2019 held at Charar-i-Sharief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Budgam, Oct 18:\u00a0<\/strong>The annual ritual of Poshak Bandi, the ceremonial changing of the cloth draped over the holy grave of Hazrat Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani (RA), was held with religious fervor at Charar-i-Sharief Budgam in Central Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>This sacred ritual marks the beginning of the annual Urs celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The Poshak Bandi will be followed by Shab-Khwani (night-long prayers) on the intervening night of October 19\u201320. The main Urs will be observed on Monday, October 20, 2025, for which a public holiday has been declared.<\/p>\n<p>The Poshak Bandi was carried out by the caretakers of the shrine in the presence of Waqf Board CEO and members, Waqf Board Administrator Charar-i-Sharief Mohammad Ashraf, Mutawali Ziyarat Younis Haji, and Mirwaiz Ameer ud Din Shah, drawing a massive crowd of devotees from across the valley.<\/p>\n<p>Devotees offered prayers for peace, harmony, and prosperity in the region. Maqbool Ahmad from Chadoora said, \u201cAttending the Poshak Bandi is a spiritual experience. We pray for the peace, harmony, and well-being of all in Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials said arrangements have been put in place to ensure the smooth conduct of the Urs.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities directed departments to provide uninterrupted water, power, and transport facilities for devotees, while special security measures were also deployed to manage the large gatherings<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of devotees visit shrine, offer prayers for peace, prosperity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}