Security Measures: Preparations for Youm-e-Ali (RA)

KARACHI: The administrator of Jamshed Town, Syed Aqeel Tazeem Naqvi, has handed over the Command and Control Centre to the police to monitor processions on Monday, Ramazan 21. The centre is being transferred to Jamshed ASP Ghulam Murtaza Malik, Soldier Bazaar SHO Ghulam Nabi, Brigade SHO Akhter Abbas. Cameras have been installed to monitor the routes and the Majlis-e-Aza (mourners’ gatherings). Naqvi said that the Jamshed town administration has done the best it can to ensure that the processions of Muharram-ul-Haram, the Chehlum of Imam Hussain (RA) and Youm-e-Ali have gone unhindered over the last four years.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 20^th, 2011.