LAHORE - Despite attacks on mosques, shrines and places of worship, the Punjab Auqaf department has not made extra-ordinary security arrangements at the mosques and shrines under its control including the largely attended Data Darbar, Pakpattan Sharif and Bibian Pakdamanan, Ucch Sharif, Mian Mir, Pir Makki, Miran Hussain Zanjani and dozens others. There are over 400 mosques and shrines controlled by the Auqaf in the province which needed a huge security force of its own but the number of guards was not beyond few dozens and quite a few police officials. The shrines are usually looked after by the volunteers (razakars) and custodians who are not only untrained but ill-equipped as well. The Auqaf had made some security arrangements at Data Darbar and Bibian Pak Damanan last year with the erection of walk-through gates and closing of rear gates following attacks on shrines, but there were no security arrangements matching the devastated terrorist attacks manipulated by the trained and suicide squads backed by the foreign intelligence agencies. The Bibian Pakdamanan shrine was also restricted and no one could enter it without body search by metal detectors. This arrangement too has weakened with the passage of time. There are some shrines like Shah Shamas Qadri at Lawrence Road, Dewan Hussain Zanjani and Mai Lado inside Aitchison Hospital at Hospital Road, Miran Hussain Zanjani at Chah Miran, Baba Shah Jamal, Shah Inayat Qadri at Queens Road, Noori Bori, Hanjerwal, Darbar Hazrat Abdullah Saqi Mast Qalandar, Saidpur, Baba Turt Murad and Shah Abdur Razzaq Gillani at Jinnah Garden, Baba Fazl Shah Multan Road, shrine at Masjid Wazir Khan and shrines inside Naqsh School of Arts, Bhatti Gate, Nougazi graves near Taranam cinema and hundreds of Imambargahs inside Mochi Gate, Imamia Colony and Thokar Niaz Beg and shrines at Sanda graveyard. The Auqaf fetches over three million cash income from the shrines of Data Darbar and Rs 2 million from Baba Farid alone. It is the departments responsibility to provide protection, cleanliness, security and facilities to the devotees.