Govt urged to ensure security during Muharram

RAWALPINDI:

The representatives of traders have urged the authorities to ensure law and order during the mourning month of Muharram.

Markazi Anjuman Tajran President Sharjeel Mir Thursday urged the home ministry and the heads of law enforcing agencies to take stringent security measures for ensuring peace and security in the city during Muharram.

Mir said the city administration must take extraordinary measures by intensifying snap checking and patrolling, effective monitoring of city's entry and exit points, deployment of additional police force and Rangers, installation and repair of CCTV cameras and other security steps so that all processions and other religious activities conclude peacefully.

Recalling the disaster suffered by local traders of Madina Market and Al-Umer plaza in 2013 on Ashura day in Raja Bazar, he said "We cannot afford any further loss of life and property as it takes years to recover and restore businesses which was put on fire by the angry mob on November 15,2013,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 21^st, 2020.