In Pakistan, mosques become coronavirus battleground issue

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/pakistan-mosques-coronavirus-battleground-issue-200504102030000.html

"Essential services have been reopened, and offering prayers as part of a congregation is also an essential service," Hanif Jallandhri, a Pakistani religious leader who leads a network of more than 20,000 mosques and religious schools, tells Al Jazeera.

In most Muslim countries, authorities have, with the backing of religious leaders, shut down all mosques to the public in a bid to contain the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus, which has claimed more than 247,500 lives worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

In Pakistan, however, tens of thousands of mosques across the country reopened late last month, after religious leaders prevailed upon the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan to allow them to restart congregational services.

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