KARACHI: August 29 A large number of people attending the 9th Muharram procession at M A Jinnah Road. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shiites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. APP photo by M Saeed Qureshi

KARACHI: August 29 A large number of people attending the 9th Muharram procession at M A Jinnah Road. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shiites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. APP photo by M Saeed Qureshi — APP51-29

KARACHI: August 29 A large number of people attending the 9th Muharram procession at M A Jinnah Road. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shiites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. APP photo by M Saeed Qureshi

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KARACHI: August 29 A large number of people attending the 9th Muharram procession at M A Jinnah Road. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shiites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. APP photo by M Saeed Qureshi

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