Post by toweringniceguy on May 2, 2007 13:31:50 GMT 10
LAHORE: In X Block, Defence Housing Authority (DHA), people from well-off families and unprivileged ones alike visited the Ghora Chowk graveyard on Monday night to witness the so-called ‘impossible’ phenomenon of vibrating graves.
There were four graves, all of females, which had been vibrating for the last five days and a number of people including women and children visited them, asking for God’s forgiveness. All four graves were around 10 yards from each other.
Ali Tabraiz Bukhari, a resident of DHA, said that some people had claimed that the graves were vibrating because of a patrol filling station’s underground machinery nearby, and because of Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA)’s tubewell, which was installed along the boundary of the graveyard. But on Monday, both installations were switched off for more than two hours, but the vibrations did not stop.
Hasnat Qadri, caretaker of a shrine, and who had visited the graveyard every day for the last five days, said that there were three versions circulating among people as to how the phenomenon was discovered. He said that firstly, when Tahira’s family came to visit her grave, they found that it was vibrating. According to the second version, a vegetable vendor was sitting near the grave when he felt the vibration and in the third version, a man who had come along with a funeral procession had felt the vibration for the first time.
Qadri said that later, other people came to know about the vibration and when they checked other graves, they found vibrations in four more, including the that Mrs Tahir, Mrs Amna, Baano and an unidentified female’s grave. Only these four graves, which were not in line or close to each other, were vibrating and more than 250 other graves were still, he added. He said that the vibrations had somewhat subsided in the last five days. He said further that a DHA security team and senior police officials had also visited the graveyard and DHA official Farooq Shah said that the entire scenario seemed to be prank.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations Aamir Zulfiqar Khan, who had also visited the graveyard, said that the police was looking into the matter, since it could be a prank or a geological or spiritual phenomenon.
Source: Daily Times Pakistan
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