While the country scrambles to contain the coronavirus, the government's indecisiveness towards suspending congregational prayers is alarming.

One would have hoped, therefore, that the fatwa by the institution permitting suspension of congregational prayers in Pakistan to control the spread of the coronavirus would have been heeded.

However, it seems that President Alvi’s meeting yesterday with religious scholars across the country to discuss that possibility has not changed their stance.

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