Ravi Shankar visits Shi'ite shrine city in Iraq

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar visited the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf on Thursday, where he met Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Shankar denounced terrorism and wanted all people to work towards non-violence. He arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday after accepting an invitation by Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to visit the conflict-ravaged country as an ambassador of peace.