District Administration Bahawalpur has banned the entry 26 Ulema of different schools of thought while 28 Ulema have been prohibited from making speeches during the month of Muharram-ul-Haram. "We have prohibited the entry of 26 religious scholars and 28 Ulema of different schools of thought have been restricted under MPO-3 during the Muharram-ul-Haram to avert any eventuality while video films would be made of all the Majalis-i-Aza and processions of mourners," DPO Bahawalpur, Arif Nawaz told.
DPO said that holding of public meetings ,organising rallies, staging demonstrations have been banned during the month. Suspects and outsiders could not join the functions of mourners.
Those Ulema whose entry was banned are "Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Ludhiyanvi, Maulana Ali Sher Haideri, Maulana Masud-rehman Usmani, Dr Khadim Hussain Dhillon, Maulana Alam Tariq, Maulana Ata Ur-rehman Farooqui, Maulana Yahya Abbasi of banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Maulana Ata-ul Momin Bukhari of Majlis-i-Ahrar Islam, Maulana Abdul Karim Nadeem, Maulana Ali Muavia, Maulana Abdul Rehman Zia, Maulana Muhammad Rafiq, Maulana Abdul Majid, Maulana Nazir Ahmed, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haqqani, (Shia Ulema) Maulana Kifayat Hussain Naqvi, Maulana Ghulam Hussain Najfi, Allama Iftikhar Hussain Naqvi, Maulana Safdar Hussain, Syed Sibtain Hussain Rizvi, Allama Tawakkal Hussain, Allama Syed Muhammad Taqi Naqvi, Syed Abrar Hussain Kazmi, Allama Ghulam Shabbir Taunsvi, Maulana Ghulam Raza Naqvi, Syed Munawar Abbas Alvi.
Those Ulema who were gagged are: Mufti Gulzar Ahmed, Rao Javed Iqbal, Qari Abdul Rashid, Moulvi Shabbir Ahmed, Mehmood Iqbal Mehmoodi, Maulana Mehmood Ahmed Safdar, Maulana Abdul Ghani, Muhammad Ashraf Deharki, Maulana Shahbaz Ahmed, Master Muhammad Tufail, Maulana Muhammad Ramzan, Muhammad Iqbal Haideri, Maulana Allah Bakhsh Anwar, Qari Sadiq Muavia, Maulana Muhammad Qasim, Maulana Jalil-ur-Rehman, Mufti Muhammad Ismail, Ghulam Muhammad Sodha, Muhammad Hussain Muavia, Qari Muhammad Idrees, Maulana Muhammad Ramzan Naamani, Maulana Abdul Karim, Maulana Hafeez-ur-rehman, Arshad Muavia, Allah Wasaya Jafari, Shakir Hussain Shamsi, Gharib Hussain Jhandeer and Master Nazar Hussain.