Shikarpur: Police foils a suicide attack over a mourning procession

Police has foiled a suicide attack over a mourning procession in Ibrahim Jatoi, area of Shikarpur, trendpk.com reported.

Four policemen including an SHO have been wounded in the attempt.

A suspicious person tried to enter the Ashura procession in Ibrahim Jatoi along with a bag. Guards of former MNA Dr. Ibrahim Jatoi tried to stop that person and then shot him when he tried to flee. While picking the dead body, the jacket that suicide attacker was wearing went off with a blast, wounding 4 policemen.

More than 1000 people were attending the Muharram procession.

Lahore: Main procession initiating from Nisar Haveli is on its way

The main Muharram procession which initiates from Nisar Haveli, Lahore is still ongoing and strict security measures have been ensured along the route of this procession.

This procession of 9th and 10th Muharram was originated from Nisar Haveli at 9.30 pm and thousands of mourners are participating in it. Water and milk stands for the mourners have been placed at various points on the route of this procession. This procession will reach Rang Mahal during afternoon where prayers will be offered. After which this procession will continue its journey till it ends at Karbala Gamay Shah at Namaz-e-Maghrib. According to CCPO Lahore, more than 20,000 policemen have been deployed along the route of this procession.

Peshawar: Child killed, 26 injured in a grenade attack

A child has been killed whereas 26 people have been injured in a grenade attack on a Muharram procession at Yadgar Chowk, Peshawar, trendpk.com reported.

Sources said that blast occurred right after the procession ended. The injured were taken to the Lady Reading hospital including 8 women and 4 children.

Bashir Ahmed Bilour, senior minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa talking to media-men outside the Lady Reading Hospital confirmed that it was a grenade attack. He said all injured have got minor injuries in the blast.

9th Muharram Processions Being Taken Out

KARACHI, trendpk: The 9th Muharram mourning processions are being held across the country amid foolproof security.

To remember the sacrifices of martyrs of Karbala, mourning processions would be held in almost all the cities of the country. In Karachi, the main procession would begin from Nishtar part chowrangi, and after passing though its routes, would terminate at Hussnainia Irania Imambargha, Kharadar.

Strict security measures have been adopted by the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to meet any untoward incident. Extra police and Rangers contingents have been deployed across the country in this regard.

Security arrangements have also been finalized in others major cities for Muharram including Quetta. Police, Balochistan Constabulary and FC besides a brigade of Army would be deployed in the city on the occasion of mourning processions.

LEAs have sealed off all the procession routes in Quetta, Lahore and others major cities.

1st Muharram on 8th December, Ashura on 17th

Muharram-ul-Hara’am moon has not been sighted; hence 1st Muharram would be on 8th December while Ashura would be on 17th December, 2010, trendpk.Com reported on Monday.

Mufti Muneeb-ul-Rehman presided over the meeting of the central Royat-e Hila Committee in Karachi. Scholars from different schools of thought, representatives of meteorology department, Pakistan Navy personnel and officers of religious ministry participated in the meeting. It was told during the meeting that no evidences for sighting the Muharram moon were received from any part of the country. After the meeting Mufti Muneeb-ul-Rehman officially announced that the moon was not sighted in any part or city of the country.

Lahore: pillion riding banned from 1st Muharram

Pillion riding has been banned in Peshawar due to security concerns from 1st till 20th December while the same has been banned in Lahore from 1st Muharram till 10th Muharram, trendpk.Com reported on Wednesday.

Peshawar administration banned pillion riding due to security threats and concerns while a notification has also been issued in this regard. Wall-chalking, carrying of arms and tainted-window cars shave also been banned alongwith pillion riding. Those violating the law would be immediately sent to the jail.

On the other hand CCPO Lahore Aslam Tareen met with Shiite scholars to discuss with them issues related with security during Muharram-ul-Haraam. The CCPO told the media that Rangers and Army personnel would be deployed in sensitive areas during the last four days of the first 10 days of Muharram. He also said that the security has been beefed up for Raiwand gathering.

Pillion riding not allowed during Muharram in Lahore

Staff Report

LAHORE: Pillion riding during Muharram-ul-Haram has been banned in the city while army would be deployed to control the law and order situation.

Lahore CCPO Aslam Tareen, while talking to media persons on Wednesday, said that pillion riding is banned from first to 10th Muharram while children and women are exempted.

He also said that army would be deployed along with the police from 6th Muharram on sensitive locations.

Tareen said that the decision of the deployment of army and rangers has been taken for the protection of the general public. Trend Pk

Indian Police Violence At Ashura In IHK

TrendPK.com Indian Police Violence At Ashura In IHK:Violence marred Muharram in Kashmir where police baton-charged mourners in Srinagar who assembled to mourn in connection with Yaum-e-Ashur and used tear gas in the old city area to disperse the unarmed mourners.
The police said at least one lakh people participated in the main Ashura [...]

Clash With Police in Srinagar, 30 injured

Srinagar: At least 30 people were injured on Saturday when Shia devotees clashed with police here after they were prevented from taking out a Muharram procession in violation of prohibitory orders in force in the city.

Police fired warning shots in air, lobbed tear gas shells and used batons to disperse stone-pelting processionists at Lal Chowk and adjoining Abi Guzar, official sources said.

The trouble started when a Muharram procession of Shia community led by Nissar Hussain Rather of Tehreek-e- Wahadat-e-Islami was stopped by police personnel at Maulana Azad Road and asked to disperse, the sources said.

They said after initial exchange of hot words between the police and the processionists, security personnel used batons and fired tear gas shells to disperse them.

Rather was taken into preventive custody, the sources said adding police tried to persuade the devotees to disperse as no procession could be allowed in view of prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC being in force in the city.

The processionists regrouped and pelted stones on the policemen who retaliated by lobbing tear gas shells and used batons to disperse them. At least 30 people were injured in the clash, the sources said.

Another group of Shia community was camping in Pratap Park since this morning protesting the “ban” on processions.

They offered afternoon prayers in the Park where their leader and President of Itehad-ul-Muslimeen, Masroor Abbas Ansari, delivered sermons and criticised the administration for refusing to allow Muharram processions since the eruption of militancy in the state.

The trouble soon spread in the adjoining areas of Lal Chowk, Budshah Chowk, Court Road, Maisuma, Kokerbazar and Red Cross Road, disrupting normal life in the areas.

Shopkeepers pulled down their shutters and transport went off the roads in the affected areas, the sources said.

While a group of the processionists engaged police in Lal Chowk and other areas, others in small groups reached Hyderi Hall at Dalgate to perform religious rituals there.

The state High Court while dismissing a writ petition challenging the “ban” imposed by the government on Muharram processions in Srinagar, had on December 23 directed it to communicate to the Shia community well in time the “permission or refusal” to take out the processions this year.

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Clash With Police in Srinagar, 30 injured was first posted on December 26, 2009 at 7:22 pm.

Poultry Rates Go Up On Surging Demand

TrendPK.com Poultry Rates Go Up On Surging Demand : Poultry farmers have pushed up prices of live bird to Rs110 per kg from Rs100 in view of surging demand during Muharram.
Meat of live bird is now being sold at Rs180 per kg as compared to Rs160 per kg three days back.
Poultry wholesalers [...]

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