{"id":24023,"date":"2020-04-19T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T04:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/covid-19-pakistan-to-allow-mosques-prayers-in-ramadan\/"},"modified":"2020-04-19T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T04:21:39","slug":"covid-19-pakistan-to-allow-mosques-prayers-in-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24023","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Pakistan to allow mosques prayers in Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Decision reached after President Alvi meets religious scholars, government officials<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-pakistan-to-allow-mosques-prayers-in-ramadan\/1810144#\">Agencies<\/a><\/em><em> | Islamuddin Sajid<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan:<\/strong> The government here decided to conditionally allow congregational prayers in mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, official media said Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was made during a meeting that involved religious scholars and top government officials chaired by President Arif Alvi in Islamabad, according to state-run Radio Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An agreement was reached to conditionally allow prayers in congregation, and Taraweeh &#8212; special night prayers performed during the holy month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No carpet will laid on the floors of mosques and worshipers will keep a distance of 6 feet apart while praying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those coming to the mosque will be required to make ablution at home and wash hands for 20 seconds before going to the facility wearing faces masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children and those older than 50 year of age, including those with conditions like flu, fever and a cough would not be allowed in the mosques for prayers, said Alvi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government will have the option to review the decision if precautionary measures are not followed or if there is a sharp increase of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, provincial governments banned congregational prayers and other religious gatherings at mosques for an indefinite period in an attempt to control the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan recorded 7,638 cases with 144 deaths, while 1,832 patients have successfully recovered and discharged from hospitals, according to health officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision reached after President Alvi meets religious scholars, government officials Agencies | Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The government here decided to conditionally allow congregational prayers in mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, official media said Saturday. The decision was made during a meeting that involved religious scholars and top government officials chaired by President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}