Ashrafi warns of COVID threat at Eid congregations, cattle markets
July 20, 2021
LAHORE: PM’s Special Representative for Interfaith Harmony and Middle East Affairs Hafiz Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi has appealed to all Islamic scholars and clerics to observe SOPs and precautionary steps against COVID-19 during Eid ul Azha, and also ask the public to follow them.
Eid is the occasion to include the deserving, poor and the destitute in joys and celebrations, but the fourth wave of COVID-19 was becoming a serious threat to the country with spike in corona cases, he said while addressing a joint press conference Monday along with noted scholars including Maulana Abdul Wahab Ropari, Maulana Muhammad Khan Leghari, Maulana Asadullah Farooq, Maulana Muhammad Ali Naqshbandi, Maulana Muhammad Rafiq Jami, Allama Syed Ziaullah Shah Bukhari, Allama Zubair Abid, Allama Muhammad Hussain Akbar, Allama Tahir-ul-Hassan, Maulana Muhammad Aslam Siddiqui, Maulana Abdul Qayyum Farooqi, Qari Abdul Hakim Athar and Maulana Qasim Qasmi.