KATHMANDU, April 20: The meeting of the National Muslim Commission (NMC) has directed the organisations and religious bodies concerned to submit to it within two days the number of Tablik Jamaat in Nepal.
The meeting presided over by the Commission's Chair Sameem Miya Ansari instructed the leaders of the Jamaat groups to submit the complete information and particulars if there were Jamaat groups in the madarasas and mosques throughout the country. The Commission, a constitutional body, asked for the information after coronavirus infection was confirmed in 12 people at a mosque in Udayapur and three people at a mosque in Parsa district.
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These people were the members of the Jaamat group. According to NMC Chair Ansari, there are around 100 foreign religious Jamaat group members in Nepal who had come for religious purposes and are stuck at various mosques due to the lockdown. The meeting also constituted a seven-member Central Coordination Committee under Ansari's coordination for monitoring the mosques and madarasas across the country and for supporting the government to fully enforce the lockdown at these places.
The members of the committee include former minister Mohammad Jakir Hussain, lawmaker Shekh Chandtara, National Human Rights Commission member Moana Ansari, Muslim Association president Abdul Sattar and religious gurus Khursheed Islaji (Olama) and Khalid Siddiqui (Olama). It is said such committees will also be formed in the districts and the respective district committee will carry out monitoring and inspection at the mosques and madarasas to help enforce the lockdown.
The committee will work together with the local administration and police in this connection. The Commission has also appealed to the Muslims of the country not to crowd at places of worship and Namaaz recitation in view of the great festival of the Muslims, Ramjan just four or five days away.
