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| Thousands of mourners join Muharram procession | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 6 : An impressive ‘Zuljinah’ procession was taken out on the occasion of Muharram here today in which thousands of Shia mourners including a sizeable number of women and children participated.
The procession started from Pirmitha complex and after passing through Lakhdatta Bazar, Kanak Mandi, Residency Road, Shaheedi Chowk etc. it culminated at Karbalah complex in Talab Khatikan.
The mourners mostly attired in black dress wailing and beating their chests and reciting Marsias in praise of Imam-e-Hussain who laid down his life in the battle field of Karbalah to uphold the truth.
The mourners were also raising anti imperialist forces slogans expressing their sympathies with the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon fighting the US tyranny. They warned the US to stop interference in the internal affairs of these countries.
Earlier hundreds of Shia mourners assembled at Peer Mitha complex where from the procession started. As it proceeded to Lakhadata Bazar the crowd of mourners swelled into thousands.
The mourners with flags in their hands were beating their chests with fists and steel chains. Some wailing mourners whose clothes were drenched in blood fell unconscious. They were shifted to hospital by the team of doctors and para- medical staff escorting the procession after giving them first aid.
The authorities had also made elaborate security arrangements for the procession and a large number of police force besides medical staff and ambulances were escorting it.
To maintain the traditional brotherhood and amity, the members of Hindu and Sikh community including the shopkeeper bodies had installed the stalls to offer soft drinks to the mourners enroute.
The Zuljinah procession culminated at Karbalah complex late in the evening with the Sham-e-Gariban by Moulana Sheikh Mohammed Askari.
Addressing the mourners, at Shaheedi Chowk, Moulana Syed Feroz Hussian said Imam-e- Hussain fought against the atrocities of Yazeed (the cruel) who was also a form of terrorism. The terrorism has no place in Islam, which has been proved by Imam-e-Hussain through his supreme sacrifice over more than one thousand years back.
The procession was organized by Anjuman-e-Imamia, Unjman –e- Hydri, Shia Federation, Ladakh and Kargil students.
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