Muharram procession News

The participants of the Muharram procession in Jammu and Kashmir carried Palestine flags, and slogans against Israel and the United States were heard.

Muharram Procession was taken out in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday (July 27) without any restrictions after nearly 34 years. Due to the deteriorating conditions in the valley after 1989, permission was not given to take out this procession. LG Sinha had reached Srinagar amid tight security arrangements. During this he met Shia mourners and exchanged his views.

This is the first time in 34 years that the procession on the 8th day of Muharram has been allowed on the traditional route in Srinagar passing through the Lal Chowk area.

The Supreme Court on Thursday denied permission for carrying out Muharram procession across the country. The apex court asked the petitioner to move before the Allahabad High Court with his plea. A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said it would lead to chaos and targeting of a particular community.

Of the 20 people, five are said to have sustained serious injuries.

Five cases were registered at Cantonment and Bithari Chainpur police stations against Mishra and others for opposing a Muharram procession in village Khajuria, they said.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested in Srinagar on Friday. JKLF sources said a police party reached the uptown Abi Guzar area of Srinagar and arrested Malik and another JKLF leader, Bashir Ahmad.

At least 22 people, including four children, were killed and 40 others injured on Friday in a suicide attack on a Muharram procession by minority Shias in Pakistan's Sindh province, a day after 12 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia shrine in Balochistan.