ISLAMABAD/KARACHI/LAHORE: Eid Milad-un-Nabi, birthday of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) will be celebrated with religious fervor and enthusiasm throughout the country today.
The day will dawn with thirty-one gun salute in the federal capital and twenty-one gun salute in all the provincial capitals.
The Milad celebrations will be in full swing right from Fajr with special prayers at mosques, religious seminaries and other Mahafil to be held in this regard.
Conferences and meetings on Seerat-un-Nabi will be held every nook and corner of the country where speakers will highlight various aspects of `Uswa-e-Hasna’, the sacred life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
Milad processions will be taken from all the major cities and small towns. In Lahore the Milad procession will be taken out from Lahore Railway Station under the aegis of Central Event Committee for Jashn-e-Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH) at 9 am.
Prior to the procession, a Seerat Conference will be also held in which prominent political and social personalities would be the guests.
The procession after passing through its traditional route of Railway Station, Australia Chowk, Brandreth Road, Gowal Mandi, Mayo Hospital, Abback Road, Anarkali, Mori Darwaza and Bhatti, will culminate at Data Darbar.
The route of the procession has already been decorated with banners.
Rose-petals would also be showered on the participants of the procession. Mosques, public and private buildings, markets, houses, roads and streets have also been decorated in tasteful manner.
Various other Milad processions will also join the main processions at different places of the route.
On this occasion, special prayers will be offered for unity of Muslim Ummah, progress and prosperity of Pakistan.
The City District Government Lahore has made elaborate arrangements to supply drinking water to the participants of the procession, besides providing them other gifts and edibles.
In Karachi an estimated number of 290 small and large sized processions would be taken out from different parts of Karachi on 12th Rabi- ul- Awwal.
Similar processions will be taken out from Peshawar, Quetta and other cities and towns.
Radio Pakistan, Pakistan Television and other media houses will air special programmes underlining different features of the life of Holy Prophet (PBUH). INP