Ajmer: Pakistan People's Party chief Benazir Bhutto's wanted to visit the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti here for the fifth time but the dream was cut short by fate.

Remembering Bhutto, Talib Kaptan, the Khadim at the sufi shrine who had performed ziyarat for Benazir four times during her visits, told about her last visit in 2005.

Last time in 2005,she came here along with her husband Asif Ali Zardari. She had wished to come to Ajmer Sharif after restoration of democracy in Pakistan, end of her self-exile and becoming "Prime Minister for the third time".

Kaptan, whose family is associated with the Bhuttos, said, "We were very close to this family. Along with my father I had gone to Karachi in 1960 to meet Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, her father.

She had come here for the first time in 1991 and visited again in 2001,2003 and 2005. I found her full of devotion. She belonged to Sindh province and people there are very devotional and believe in Sufi saints," he said.

Kaptan said that in the year 2003,when she came here she was quite unhappy, being in exile and her husband jailed in Pakistan.

"She told me that I should pray for the well being of her husband," he recalled.

During her prayers here she always wished for the prosperity of Pakistan and well being of her family, especially good education of her children, he added.

Later after her husband was released, she visited Ajmer along with Zardari in April 2005. She said she would visit again and added "Khwaja bulayenge aur main aaoongi".

On her last trip to Jaipur, she had shopped as a commoner in the walled city, purchasing salwars and handicrafts.

Source : PTI