Islamabad: April 05, 2021 (TNS): President Dr. Arif Alvi has urged Ulema and Mashaikh to play their role for ensuring implementation of standard operating procedures against COVID-19 in mosques and Imambargahs during the holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n
He was virtually speaking at a consultative meeting of Ulema and Mashaikh about observance of Covid-related SOPs in mosques and Imambargahs during Ramadan, in Islamabad on Monday.<\/p>\n
The President appreciated the role of Ulema and Mashaikh in observance of the SOPs during the last Ramadan and emphasized on implementing the same 20-point guidelines in mosques and Imambargahs.<\/p>\n
He said the Imams and Khateebs have close interaction with the general public and they should create awareness about these guidelines including wearing face mask, washing hands and maintaining social distance.<\/p>\n
The President said people above 65 years of age should avoid visiting mosques. He also suggested that first Juma of Ramazan should be observed as “Juma-e-Nijat” from this pandemic.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Religious Affairs Dr. Noor-ul Haq Qadri said the Ministry has been in contact with all stakeholders to deal with the situation.<\/p>\n
He said the SOPs issued by the government will be implemented in all mosques and Imambargahs with the support of Aimma-e-Masajid.<\/p>\n
The Minister said the SOPs adopted by Pakistan last year were appreciated by the world and some countries, including Turkey, also followed those guidelines.<\/p>\n
In his virtual remarks, Special Assistant on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan said the third wave of the COVID-19 is dangerous and the SOPs should be followed strictly. He said about one million citizens have so far been vaccinated and it will be continued.<\/p>\n
In their speeches, Ulema from different schools of thought assured that guidelines will be followed in letter and spirit in mosques across the country like the last year.<\/p>\n
They gave a number of suggestions to make this campaign successful.<\/p>\n
The provincial governors and Ulema and Mashaikh from all four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan attended the meeting virtually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad: April 05, 2021 (TNS): President Dr. Arif Alvi has urged Ulema and Mashaikh to play their role for ensuring implementation of standard operating procedures against COVID-19 in mosques and Imambargahs during the holy month of Ramadan. He was virtually speaking at a consultative meeting of Ulema and Mashaikh about observance of Covid-related SOPs in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96776,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96774\/revisions\/96776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}