RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) on Thursday urged the Sindh government to ensure law and order alongside better cleanliness arrangements in the city during Muharram.

“The sacred month of Muharram is fast approaching but provincial government and civic authorities are showing negligence towards cleanliness in Karachi,” MWM’s central deputy secretary general Allama Hassan Zafar Naqvi said talking to the media after ‘All Shia Parties’ Conference’ held at the Wahdat Secretariat, here.

He further said that the sanitary conditions in the city particularly at the routes of mourning processions of Muharram azadari and around the mosques and Imambargahs were very poor.

Allama Naqvi apprehended that the heaps of garbage, swirling gutters and filthy stagnant water in the city neighborhoods would remain problematic for the devotees of Hazrat Imam Hussain and impede performance of religious rituals during the forthcoming Muharram.

He also criticized the Sindh Government and civic authorities for lack of due Shia representation in their meetings pertaining to Muharram azadari. He urged the government to ensure foolproof security to the mosques and Imambargahs where mourning congregations and processions would be held.

Allama Naqvi demanded stern actions against the banned organizations and urged the security agencies to keep an eye on terrorist elements that were bent upon destabilizing peace in Karachi and creating hatred among different Muslim sects during Muharram.

MWM Sindh’s secretary on political affairs Ali Hussain Naqvi, president Zakireen-e-Imamia Pakistan Allama Nisar Qalandari, All Pakistan Shia Action Committee leader Sagheer Abidi Rizvi, vice president Jafaria Alliance Maulana Hussain Masoodi, general secretary Pak Muharram Association Ali Sarwar, Allama Furqan Hyder Abidi, Allama Shaikh Hassan Salahuddin and other scholars were also present on the occasion.