- Title: PAKISTAN: CELEBRATION OF ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTHDAY OF PROPHET MOHAMMED.
- Date: 11th January 1982
- Summary: PAKISTAN: ISLAMABAD: GV EXTERIOR National Assembly building 0.04 GV INTERIOR Members seated 0.08 CU President Zia speaking to delegates seated (2 shots) 0.26 RAWALPINDI: GV EXTERIOR Decorated floats in procession through streets 0.35 SV Moslems in procession 0.38 LV & SV Decorative floats and banners in procession (2 shots) 0.50 SV PAN Children watch as float with model of F-16 passes (2 shots) 1.00 GV Crowds on-look 1.05
- Embargoed: 26th January 1982 12:00
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- Location: Pakistan, Pakistan
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: General,Religion
- Reuters ID: LVA55IGWOGMRP82J5DDZ3Q70BCO5
- Story Text: ISLAMABAD AND RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN
Pakistan's 80 million Moslems joined their co-religionists throughout the world on Saturday (9 January) in celebrating the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Mohammed. At the National Assembly building in Islamabad, the capital, President Zia-ul-Hua arrived to inaugurate a two-day conference commemorating the birth of the Prophet. He awarded three prizes to authors of biographies of Mohammed. In Rawalpindi, street processions were held, which included a float carrying a model of an F-16 aircraft. Children carrying copies of the Koran, the Islamic religious text, led the march, as the crowd chanted religious verses in a mixture of languages, including Arabic, Urdu and Punjabi.
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