People attend evening prayers while maintaining distance to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus at a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday, April 19, 2020. A day earlier, President Dr Arif Alvi had announced that neither the state machinery nor clerics would stop citizens from visiting mosques as almost all demands of clerics related to holding of Friday, Tara­weeh and daily congregational prayers were acc­epted with the condition of social distancing and other precautionary measures. — AP
People attend evening prayers while maintaining distance to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus at a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday, April 19, 2020. A day earlier, President Dr Arif Alvi had announced that neither the state machinery nor clerics would stop citizens from visiting mosques as almost all demands of clerics related to holding of Friday, Tara­weeh and daily congregational prayers were acc­epted with the condition of social distancing and other precautionary measures. — AP

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