RAWALPINDI: The Punjab Home Department has declared the suspension of mobile phone services across 21 districts of the province on the 9th and 10th of Muharram-ul-Haram
According to media reports, this includes Muzaffargarh, where the proposal for mobile phone suspension has been forwarded for the 7th to 10th of Muharram.
The mobile services will continue to be suspended in sensitive areas of several cities, including Bahawalnagar, Muzaffargarh, Bahawalpur, DG Khan, Rahim Yar Khan, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Layyah, Rajanpur, and other districts of upper Punjab.
Mobile phone services will remain available in other districts, including Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Attock, Jhelum, Chakwal, Sargodha, Khushab, Chiniot, Multan, Khanewal, Vehari, Sahiwal, Okara, Pakpattan, and Lodhran.
It should be noted, the federal government approved the deployment of armed forces nationwide to ensure security during Muharram.
The move comes at the request of authorities in Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir to deploy the military to control the law and order situation.
The Centre, under Article 245 of the Constitution, authorized the “deployment of army troops/assets and civil armed forces troops/assets” to ensure peace.
