During Eid, which fell on April 20-21 this year, people aged 60 and older were allowed to pray in a local mosque under heavy police surveillance, sources said.
As per initial reports, labourers at the place were enraged because of his grumbling that "precious time" was being lost due to prayer breaks, and an ensuing heated conversation.
Hundreds of Tibetans gathered in the main Buddhist temple Tsuglagkhang in Dharamshala to offer prayers for the well-being of the 11th Panchen Lama. Buddhist monks and nuns led the prayer service in the temple.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the blast. He expressed grief over the lives lost and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured, reported Geo News.
"I have examined myself, bloodstains, the knife was found near the staircase and next to the kitchen Atiq's office," Satyendra Prasad Tiwari, Prayagraj Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP).
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to list on April 28 the plea seeking to constitute an independent expert committee under the chairmanship of a former Supreme Court judge to inquire into the killing of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in police presence in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Umashankar Singh on Sunday said his party wants Shaista Parveen, wife of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, to run for the Mayoral elections in Prayagraj.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reached Kashi and offered prayers at Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham during a one-day tour ahead of the municipal elections on Sunday.
Reacting to slogans glorifying slain Uttar Pradesh gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed after offering prayers, Union Minister Ashwini Choubey said that such people should be shot at sight and Bihar needs Yogi's model of government.