Over 1000 Shia pilgrims have to stay at Taftan border on orders of administration

01 August, 2017 12:07

More than a thousand Shia pilgrims have to prolong their stay at the Taftan border town of Pakistan near Iran because the administration ordered them to stay as long as they are provided security cover.

Shia pilgrims have to suffer from multiple problems due to lack needed living facilities such as potable drinking water, enough water for bath and wuzoo, hygienic food and comfortable residential space.
They have to pay much amount to get the available third class facilities that cost them dearly in terms of money and that are also deleterious for their health.
The pilgrims (Zaireen) have demanded that they must be allowed to proceed to Quetta without any pretext. They said that why there is no security for more than 1000 Shia pilgrims and how long they have to stay at Taftan borders? They said it was a pretext to earn money from the Shia pilgrims.
It is relevant to add here that Shia Muslims go to pilgrimage in Iran and Iraq via Iran by road because it costs much less as compared to air travel. But, biased and corrupt officials have created problems raising cost of their otherwise pilgrimage at much cheaper cost.

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