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Kashmiri Muslims pray as unseen priest shows a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar on January 1, 2016, on the last Friday of Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Muhammad. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the shrine in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir to offer prayers on the Prophet’s birth anniversary. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA