Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has announced that Pakistan Television (PTV) will live telecast Tarawih prayers during Ramadan.
In a tweet, Awan said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had directed PTV to live telecast tarawih prayers so that people can take part in the prayers from their homes and practise social distancing. The tarawih prayers will be broadcast live on PTV News every night at 9:30 pm.
Meanwhile, a consultative session of religious scholars chaired by President Arif Alvi on April 18 agreed to a 20-point preventive measure plan against the highly contagious novel coronavirus disease during prayers in the month of holy Ramadan.
The government, in a conditional agreement, allowed congregational prayers and taraweeh in Ramadan with preventive measures.
President Alvi in the meeting said that the people should perform ablutions for prayers at homes and during prayers “a space of two persons should be left between two people offering prayers in a row.”
It was further agreed that the floor of mosques should be washed with water mixed with chlorine and that no collective Sehri or Iftar arrangements will be made at the mosques.
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