Baba Ghai’s four year long campaign to clarify UK cremation laws concluded with a ruling that his request to be, “naturally cremated and, like the mythical phoenix, rise from the flames anew,” could, “be accommodated under the Cremation Act 1902 and the Regulations.” On 17th February the Court of Appeal issued an Order requiring Newcastle City Council to reconsider its refusal to provide land for a funeral pyre cremation site in February 2006. The legal battle was finally over.

In Nov 2005, Baba Ghai personally concluded negotiations with Government of Pakistan representatives to successfully establish dedicated Hindu and Sikh funeral pyre cremation grounds on Lahore’s Band Road (Abu Sabu Interchange) – on land granted by the Evacuee Property Trust Board (Waqaaf Board). The Government of Pakistan also funded the construction of on-site buildings and facilities and the site is now managed under AAFS (Pakistan) Representative Dr Munawar Chand.

Baba Ghai (Babaji) is the Founding President of the Anglo Asian Friendship Society – the largest multi-faith registered charity in Britain (Registered Charity No. I 108891). AAFS operates across three continents with particular focus in India, Pakistan, Canada and Greece. It has almost 3000 members in Britain, members of every race, religion and community.

In the aftermath of London’s 7/7 terrorist attacks in 2005, Anglo-Asian Friendship Society members from across Britain joined to mourn the innocent lost lives and to publicly demonstrate a unity of faiths.

Whether Hindu, Christian, Muslim or Sikh, we have joined as one – meditating on Christ’s compassion in the Garden of Gethsemane; clinging to the Western Wall precipice of the Jewish Holy Land; gazing into the Heavens at Al Aqsa mosque. Our pilgrimages have given us unique memories to cherish, such as the unique dawn-to-dusk day in November 2005, Hindu, Sikhs and Muslims together offered Eid prayers in Lahore’s Datta Darbar shrine before crossing the Indo-Pak border to celebrate Deepwali at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

Baba Ghai (Babaji) is the Founding President of the Anglo Asian Friendship Society – the largest multi-faith registered charity in Britain (Registered Charity No. I 108891). AAFS operates across three continents with particular focus in India, Pakistan, Canada and Greece. It has almost 3000 members in Britain, members of every race, religion and community.

Heralding a new dawn in Pakistan’s political and cultural landscape, Baba Ghai’s prayers for world peace at the inauguration of Krishna Mandir in Lahore were broadcast across South Asia in 2006.

Krishna Mandir is the first Hindu temple to open in Pakistan for over a generation and, particularly, the first since most were destroyed during reprisal protests against the Indian government’s demolition of Babri Mosque in Ayodha (1992).

The unparalleled natural beauty of Kashmir resembled a vast burial ground when AAFS volunteers based in Lahore and Islamabad first arrived in the early hours following South East Asia’s deadliest ever earthquake.

Baba Ghai led Pankaj Gupta, Kala Vedhara aand Andrew Singh Bogan with vital field experience accumulated during relief missions since the 1984 in Union-Carbide Disaster Bhopal. In the sub-zero Himalayan foothills, a distribution program of food parcels and winter delivered the very most needed supplies to those most in need.

Devotees gather to attend the funeral ceremony of Hindu holy man Dho Gutta Whallay, one of India’s famous spiritual leaders with many followers in the country and abroad. Sant Dho Gutta Whallah Babaji have been immense solace and inspiration for many who devoted their lives to his teachings.