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Muharram 2019: 10 Things To Know About The Day Of Ashura
Muharram is a period of intense grief and mourning for Shia Muslims. The mourners congregate at a mosque for sorrowful poetic recitations. Some Shia Muslims observe the mourning with blood donation. Sunni Muslims commemorate the day through voluntary fasting. While fasting during the month of Ramadan became obligatory, the fast of Ashura was made n...
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Pakistan Sets Up Committee To Scientifically Fix Religious Festival Dates
Pakistan has set up a committee to determine lunar dates of religious festivals through a scientific method and end confusion in dates related to moon-sighting by clerics.
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Early Snowfall Strands Hundreds in Pakistan
Hundreds of tourists were stranded today after the earliest snowfall in 40 years blocked a main highway in Pakistan's northern areas, dumping three feet of snow on one town in less than 24 hours.
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Stone-pelting mars peaceful tazia procession in city
Despite the deployment of nearly 15,000 policemen on the streets to ensure a peaceful tazia procession, trouble erupted in Shahpur and belied the city police's claim of providing solid bandobast to avoid any untoward incident on this Muslim festival day. Once again two communities were engaged in a face-off -- after unidentified miscreants pelted s...
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Muharram 2019: 10 Things To Know About The Day Of Ashura
Muharram is a period of intense grief and mourning for Shia Muslims. The mourners congregate at a mosque for sorrowful poetic recitations. Some Shia Muslims observe the mourning with blood donation. Sunni Muslims commemorate the day through voluntary fasting. While fasting during the month of Ramadan became obligatory, the fast of Ashura was made n...
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Pakistan Sets Up Committee To Scientifically Fix Religious Festival Dates
Pakistan has set up a committee to determine lunar dates of religious festivals through a scientific method and end confusion in dates related to moon-sighting by clerics.
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Early Snowfall Strands Hundreds in Pakistan
Hundreds of tourists were stranded today after the earliest snowfall in 40 years blocked a main highway in Pakistan's northern areas, dumping three feet of snow on one town in less than 24 hours.
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Stone-pelting mars peaceful tazia procession in city
Despite the deployment of nearly 15,000 policemen on the streets to ensure a peaceful tazia procession, trouble erupted in Shahpur and belied the city police's claim of providing solid bandobast to avoid any untoward incident on this Muslim festival day. Once again two communities were engaged in a face-off -- after unidentified miscreants pelted s...
