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
The government’s constant threats to suspend KP’s elected dispensation over a political protest have escalated hostilities considerably. In that context, both sides did well to start talking.
