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LAHORE, Jul 15 (APP):Mobile phone service will remain active in 17 districts of Punjab while it will be partially suspended in the rest of the province during the 9th and 10th of Muharram.
According to the spokesperson for the Punjab Home Department, the cellular service will remain active in Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura, Sargodha, Khushab, Sialkot, Attock, Jhelum, Chakwal, Multan, Khanewal, Lodhran, Vehari, Sahiwal, Pakpattan, Okara and Chiniot.
It is recommended that the cellular services are suspended only in the surrounding areas of processions and Majalis for security reasons, he added.
The spokesperson said mobile services will be partially suspended in Gujranwala, Narowal, Toba Tek Singh, Bhakkar, Mandi Bahauddin, Wazirabad, Rajanpur, Faisalabad, Bahawalnagar, Hafizabad, Gujrat, DG Khan and Jhang.
The spokesperson clarified that cellular services will not be completely suspended in any city of the Punjab.
The partial suspension of mobile signals will continue from 8am till 10pm during the 9th and 10th of Muharram on procession routes and areas of Majalis in the already mentioned districts only.
He added that cellular network services will be suspended at 28 locations in Rawalpindi, 15 locations in Rahim Yar Khan, 11 locations in Mianwali and Bahawalpur. Mobile service will remain suspended at 10 places in Layyah, seven places in Muzaffargarh and six places in Nankana Sahib.
Earlier, on the Muharram 7, mobile services were partially suspended in some areas of Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Jhang, Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar. He said that the decision to partially suspend cellular network services at certain places was taken to maintain law and order and ensure citizens protection.