The government should officially announce two-day holidays on the 11th and 12th or the 12th and 13th of Rabiul-Awwal, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) Karachi chief, Shabbir Abu Talib, demanded Sunday at a press conference held at the the JUP head office (Raza Library).
Talib also demanded smooth, uninterrupted electricity supply during Rabiul Awwal processions, and said that the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) should hold a special cleanliness campaign, and limestone should be sprinkled at roadsides, footpaths, grounds and garbage-dumping centres.
Moreover, he said, the police should maintain high standards of law and order in the city and no barriers should be forced on the processions. Talib also went on to demand that processions should be allowed to proceed without needing permissions in advance.
The JUP would make special arrangements for the upcoming event and during programmes in various parts of the city, it would ask people to boycott products imported from Denmark and some other European countries involved in reprinting blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh).
“We had also planned to distribute awards to people hired for the arrangements of the processions, to salute them for continued professional and financial contributions,” Talib said.