Mobile service will remain suspended in various parts of the country on account of Hazrat Imam Hussain’s Chehlum.
The service will remained closed from 8 AM tomorrow to 10 PM tomorrow night.
According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the cellular service will remain closed in 18 district of Punjab, 6 districts of Sindh, 9 districts of Baluchistan and 6 districts of Azad Kashmir and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkwa the mobiles will become silent from 12 AM tonight.
Areas where service will remain closed include Karachi, Sakkur, Hyderabad, Kotli, Multan, Lahore, D.I.Khan, Rawalpindi, Rawlakot, Sargodha, Jafferabad, Jhal Magsi, Bagh, Muzaffarabad, Peshawar, Bannu and Bhawalpur.
Earlier today, Punjab Police had sent a request to Provincial Interior Ministry to block the mobile service as a part of preemptive measures on Hazrat Imam Hussain’s Chehlum.
Suspending the mobile service has become a norm in Pakistan on national and religious events in the name of security.
