He said he and his team have come here because Allah has created Kashmir when Allah worked in no haste.

“There is a spiritual vibe in Kashmir and I believe nobody can come to Kashmir unless this land beckons him,” he told his audience.

Singing and dancing on the stage in his inimitable style of combining high and low pitch, Sami took the audience along through the entire concert.

“Kabhi to Nazar Milayo/Kabhi to Kareeb Aawo/Jo Nahin Kaha Hi Kabhi To Samaj Jawo”, he sang in chaste Urdu as he flashed through the stage directing musicians and intermittently playing the piano himself.

As requests for songs poured in from the audience, Sami sportingly fulfilled these requests mostly from young boys and girls.

He said he was dedicating his famous song to Kashmir and its people , “Aay Khuda, Aay Khuda/ Jis Nay Ki Justaju/Milgaya Us Ko Tu”.

Extra ordinary security arrangements had been made to secure the venue as scores of police and paramilitary forces dotted the venue and all roads leading to it.

Security forces allowed passage on the Boulevard Road only to VVPs and their escort vehicles.

Attendance at the concert was only through special invitations sent by the organizers.