INDIA KASHMIR MUHARRAM

Kashmir government to allow Muharram processions in Srinagar after 3 decades

epa10770850 Shiite mourners attending the Muharram procession in the City Centre in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 27 July 2023. The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir for the first time in over three decades allowed the processions from the City Centre on 8th Muharram, the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar. The Muharram processions were banned from the City Centre in 1989 at the outbreak of armed insurgency in the region although Shiites used to bring out processions within localities and in the peripheries. Shiites observe the first 10 days of Muharram in mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad in Karbala in modern day Iraq. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

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