JUI-F leader opposes lockdown of mosques

MANSEHRA: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) district president, Mufti Kifayatullah, on Wednesday said that his party would not accept lockdown of mosques and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government should review its order in this regard.

“We can combat Covid-19 through adopting precautionary measures and worships and if we would lockdown our mosques, we could not seek Allah’s forgiveness,” Kifayatullah told a news conference here.

Flanked by a group of prayer leaders, he said that his party was fully cooperating with government in its efforts to contain spread of Covid-19 in the district and rest of the province.

“But we would never allow this government to keep people away from mosques in such an alarming situation where one should seeks Allah’s mercy and forgiveness to come out of this deadly pandemic,” said Kifayatullah.

He asked the government to take to justice those cabinet ministers, who facilitated the entry of devotees into the country at Taftan border.

Meanwhile, a civil society organisation, Islah-i-Rasoom, has demanded of the government to relax strict measures being taken by it to contain spread of Covid-19 in the province and allow traders to reopen their business.“The government should allow business community and daily wages employees to resume their financial activities under Covid-10 protocol as we fear more deaths because of hunger,” Mukhtar Ahmad Swati, the president of Islah-i-Rasoom, told a press conference here.

Flanked by other office-bearers of Islah-i-Rasoom (Reform the Rituals), Swati said that it was highly encouraging that government was allowing more and more businesses resumption as the situation was being unfolded gradually in the district.