NEW DELHI: Pakistan president Asif Zardari may have come, prayed and gone, but here's the first sign of the president's visit to sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti grave bearing fruit. The saint's namesake Khalil Chishty, an eighty-year old plus Pakistani virologist, who has been sentenced to life in a murder case in 1992, has been finally granted bail by the Indian Supreme court Tuesday.
The court also asked the ailing prisoner, who is presently in a prison at Ajmer, to submit a fresh application to the apex court for his return to his home country, Pakistan. Khalil Chisty had been accused of murder when he came to India 20 years ago to offer his prayers at the shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisty, who is renowned in this part of the world for his ‘powers' which brings your wishes to fruition once you visit his shrine. Khalil Chishty, a renowned scientist of his time has been associated with universities across Europe and Asia. According to his prison medical records, Chisty has already suffered from cardiac arrest, hip fractures and has been virtually crippled with age. Zardari's high profile “personal” visit to Chisty's shrine on Sunday, along with his son Bilawal and his lunch meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was highly publicized on account the strained relations between the two countries; who have been at war thrice since the two countries became independent from British rule in 1947.
