Islamabad: (Parliament Times) According to a report by an NGO, about 80 percent of mosques in Punjab province flouted the rules for the first taraweeh prayer in the month of Ramadan. This disregard, will be followed by another complete ignorance to the policy of social distancing in the eid-azha prayer.
People hug each other at the end of the prayer to exchange eid greetings. This means if one man in the crowd is having such disease, others will contract the disease from him . In this case,holistically, the cases will surge up. On the one hand the government is reluctant to even call national assembly sessions, and on the other, it is not ready to impose harsher restrictions on business and religious activities.
Government needs to review its social distancing policy to combat Covid-19 more effectively. Prayers and other public activities should be banned till the situation becomes normal. Furthermore, state authorities should not, in any case, agree on some other 20 or 40-point accord with clerics for allowing eid prayer in mosques.
