muharram

The 10th of Muharram brings back terrible memories for Jinnah hospital but this time around, the staff is prepared.

Standing on the cooling ashes, Marhaba and Asba bend to prostrate on the 15-foot-long path lined with embers.

Shia clerics choose the Muharram 9 sermons as an opportunity to comment on the blasphemy law.

Thousands walked side by side in the Muharram 9 Pehalwan Goth procession.

The city’s Shia mourners know there is a very tangible threat from terrorists, yet they continue their processions.

All main roads and arteries leading to the route of Ashura processions blocked with barricades and barbed wires.

Those planning to leave the city ahead of Muharram holidays faced problems due to an insufficient numbers of buses.

The horses used for Lahore’s biggest Muharram procession are kept at Nawab Palace.

The people of Pakistan coexist happily wherever there is no clerical or terrorist coercion.

The first Ashura procession in Lahore is believed to date back to the early 19th century.