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Amagazine KARACHI: Sindh government has further extended until January 10 the ban on motorcycle pillion riding here. Provincial Home Department, which had banned motorcycle pillion riding before Eid ending December 22, has further extended it until January 10. Pillion riding ban was clamped after last month riots in Karachi, which has been extended for the second time. Security organizations’ staff, women, senior citizens and journalists would remain exempted from this ban.

ISLAMABAD: The Eid-ul-Azha prayer will be offered at Faisal Mosque here on Tuesday morning at 8.30 a.m. Khateeb Faisal Mosque, Prof. Abdul Jabbar Shakir will recite ‘sermon’ in Urdu. The Eid prayer would be offered at 8:00 am in different mosques of twin cities including Jamia Masjid Ghausia G-9/1, Eid Gah Police ground G-7, Jamia Masjid Aqsa F-6/3, Children Park Satellite Town and Jamia Masjid Tayyaba Loi Bher. In Jamia Masjid Muhammadi I-10/1, Markazi Jamia Masjid Noori Model Town Humak, Jamia Masjid Dar-ul-Islam I-10/2, Jamia Masjid Qaba Commercial Market Satellite Town, the Eid-ul-Azha prayer would be offered at 8:30 a.m. While, eid prayer is scheduled at 9:00 a.m. at Jamia Masjid Eid Gah Road Rawalpindi and Makki Jamia Masjid Commercial Market. KARACHI: The central congregation for the Eid-ul-Azha prayer will be held at the Bagh-e-Jinnah ground (formerly Polo Ground) where the prayer will be offered at 8’O clock in the morning on Tuesday.Maulana Naeem Ahmed Saleemi will lead the ...

CNews LAHORE: Eid-ul-Fitr is being celebrated in some parts of Lahore, Faisalabad and Gujranwala today(02 oct).Eid prayers offered Thursday at Oonchi Masjid in Bhati Gate area of the walled city in Lahore.Eid prayers also offered at Masjid Enayat Rizvia in Samanabad area of Faisalabad. Moreover Eid prayers congregations were held at Islamabad Chowk, Gujranwala and other localities of the city. The prayers leaders criticized announcement of Eid-ul-Fitr on Wednesday and termed it violation of Sharia.

CNews NEW DELHI: People in India and Bangladesh are celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with religious enthusiasm and fervor on Thursday.The biggest Eid congregation of New Delhi was held at Jamia Mosque in which thousands of people offered Eid prayer.Stringent security measures were taken in the country in backdrop of recent Delhi blasts on this occasion.A heavy contingent of law enforcement personnel was deputed outside the mosque to cop up any untoward incident.Eid is also being celebrated in Bangladesh, the major congregation of Eid was held at central Eidgah of Dhaka and Bait-ul-Mukarram Mosque.

ISLAMABAD: The Eid ul Fitr is being celebrated by the faithfuls in the country including Azad Kashmir with religious fervor, the Eid namaz was offered at Eidgahs, Imambargahs, parks, open places in the country, security has been enhanced throughout the country to avoid any unwanted occurrence.President Asif Ali Zardari offered Eid prayers at President House and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in PM House, former President Pervez Musharraf in Army House, Army Chief Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani in Chaklalah, deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry in Faisal Mosque, Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuro in Garhi Khuda Bux and Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah offered prayers in Naudero House.In the federal capital, the largest Eid congregations were held at Faisal Mosque and Lal Masjid; in Rawalpindi, main congregations were held at the Central Eidgah, Liaquat Bagh, Jamia Masjid, Racecourse Ground and in various areas of Cantt.In the provincial metropolis, the largest congregations were...

Islamabad, Sept 29: Ahead of Eid, to be celebrated on October 2, people in Pakistan are resorting to e-cards, SMSs, MMSs, and emails to send festival greetings to their near and dear ones. The ongoing inflationary trend hitting the common man has been cited as the major reason for the shift in habits of the people here. Rafea Manan, a fine arts student in Islamabad, said that inflation had taken its toll and people could not afford buying flour, what to speak of greeting cards. A fine-quality card costs around Rs 50 or even more, and customers are of the opinion that they don’t want spending Rs 50 or more on a single card when they can get more attractive cards online for free. According to an estimate, greeting cards business in Pakistan this year has been reduced to one-fifth of what it was last year. “A world of difference in the business of cards has been noted in the last five years. We used to buy cards worth Rs 250,000 in yesteryears but this time we invested only Rs 40,000,” sa...

PML (Q) cannot misguide President Musharraf: Benazir BhuttoJACOBABAD: Chairperson Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Benazir Bhutto said that 8th January would be the day of PPP’s victory and people’s freedom.She said that the PPP did not compromise with dictators and generals and nor it would compromise in future.Addressing a public meeting in the ground of Hameedia High School in Jacobabad, Benazir Bhutto said that the PPP candidates from all over the country would win the elections on January 8. ..... Bush not satisfied with progress in IraqWASHINGTON:US President George W. Bush said Thursday he was not satisfied with the central Iraqi government's record on reconciling the country's rival sectarian groups and carrying out reforms, vowing to press for more progress.Bush conceded Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government needed to do more work but insisted it is functioning and passing budgets when asked if US troop reinforcements this year had given it enough room to press ah...

CNews TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged Arab nations on Saturday to boycott a Middle East peace meeting in the United States. "The United States took the initiative for this meeting to save the Zionist regime (Israel), which received a beating at the hands of Hezbollah," during the war last year, Khamenei told a crowd of hundreds of thousands at Iran's Grand Mosque. "Every conference that has been organised in the name of peace has harmed the Palestinians," he said, in a speech to mark Iran's celebration of the Eid al-Fitr holiday that follows the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. "As the Palestinians themselves are not participating in this conference, how can the others (Arab states) do so," he asked, as the crowds chanted slogans against America and Israel.