MWM finalises arrangements for Arbaeen caravan to Iran amid land travel ban

An important meeting of the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen’s (MWM) provincial and divisional leaders was held on Tuesday under the leadership of Sindh President Allama Baqar Zaidi and Allama Sadiq Jaffri. The session was also attended by Sindh Pilgrims Association and caravan leaders.

The meeting finalised arrangements for the caravan of pilgrims that will set off on Wednesday (today) from Karachi to the Rimdan (Pakistan-Iran border crossing) border under the leadership of MWM central chief Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri, in protest against the federal government’s ban on pilgrims travelling by land for the Arbaeen pilgrimage.

Addressing the participants, Allama Baqar Abbas Zaidi said the federal government had been taking negative steps against pilgrims and mourners of Imam Hussain (RA). “We will never accept any restriction on our religious freedom and constitutional rights. Conspiracies are being hatched against Azadari (mourning rituals) and its followers, which we strongly condemn on a daily basis,” he said.

He noted that in most parts of the country, especially Punjab, Majalis and mourning processions had been unjustly restricted, false cases were being registered against mourners, and their names were being placed on the Fourth Schedule.

Allama Zaidi declared that the peaceful Hussaini caravan from Karachi’s Imambargah Shuhada-e-Karbala Ancholi to the Rimdan border, under the leadership of Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri, would not tolerate any hindrance. “Visiting the holy shrines is our legal and constitutional right, and we will not back down an inch from it,” he affirmed.