Lahore: The first phase of annual tableeghi congregation (preaching congregation) ended in Lahore after prayers which brought tears in the most of the people eyes.
The collective prayers were carried out by Maulana Ibrahim of India.
Maulana Khursheed also issued instructions before the collective prayers for the people sitting in the congregation.
The Lahore police had conducted fool proof arrangments for the occassion.
After the end of tablegi ijtama, the formed groups left preaching for Islam within the country and abroad.
The tablehi ijtama in Raiwand was started on Thursday before Asar prayer with a lesson by a cleric.
According to the Ijtema administration, areas participated in the first phase were Kark, Bannu, Lucky Marwat, Dir, Bajaur, Timargarah, Chitral, Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Attock, Tala Gang, Chakwal, Sargodha, Khushab, Bhakkar, Mianwali, all districts of Kashmir and all districts of Sindh province, except for Karachi.
Estimately around a half million people attended in the first phase.The delegates from abroad also participated in the congregation.
As per the police for ensuring the security of the attendees of congregation more than 4000 police personnel were deployed.
