Muharram processions in Peshawar

Peshawar: The 10th day of Muharram, processions were taken out from the various parts of the city that marched on the various roads and culmination at their respective destinations peacefully.

Nine districts of Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa had been declared sensitive, in Peshawar on the 10th Muharram processions were taken out from the various Imambaraghs but the main procession as taken out from the Razi shah Imambaragh.

The mourners including women are children were participated in processions and took out Zuljinah procession. The participate tributes the martyrs of Karbala by reciting the Marsia and Noha.  The religious scholars said the Muharram remember us the great sacrifices of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RH) and his companions for supremacy of Islam.

The procession were passing through the traditional routs and end on the same Imambaragh from where the procession started. Zuljinah processions were also taken out from the various areas of Peshawar including kohati, Kochi bazaar.

SP city police Amtiyaz said that due to the security reasons the entrance and existence were closed and more then 6000 police were placed in the city. He said that police are deployed while the Army and frontier constabulary put on stand by.