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| Entry of 190 ulema in Pindi division during Muharram banned |
| 2015-10-12 |
| [DAWN] The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government has banned the entry of 190 Learned Elders of Islam and Zakirs in the Rawalpindi division during Muharram. The inter-provincial movement of religious leaders is already banned during the month. According to police sources, of the 190 Learned Elders of Islam, the entry of 39 has been banned in the Rawalpindi district, 91 in Attock, 18 in Jhelum and 45 in Chakwal. As many as 77 of the holy mans belonged to the Shia, 95 to Deobandi and 18 Barelvi schools of thought. The government has also decided to register cases against the organisers of majalis in which any banned Learned Elders of Islam or Zakirs would be invited. "No Learned Elders of Islam from other parts of the province will be allowed to enter Rawalpindi or visit other districts during Muharram," Regional Police Officer (RPO) Mohammad Wisal Fakhar Sultan Raja said. In addition to the entry ban, the names of those included in the police watch list under the fourth schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 are being updated. The RPO said individuals placed on the watch-list were under surveillance by the police and security officials. In the Rawalpindi division, more than 725 processions and 3,800 majalis have been put in the highly sensitive 'A', less sensitive 'B' and low sensitive 'C' categories. Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... Qasr-e-Shabbir at Dhoke Syedan, which had been included in the 'C' category, was targeted by a jacket wallah in November 2012 killing at least 15 people and injuring over 35 others. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It worries me a bit that I've been hanging around Ratburg so long I understand the headline at 2 reads. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-10-12 16:48 |