ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan has said that Rawalpindi situation is improving gradually after the unfortunate incident occurred on Friday.
Addressing a news conference here on Sunday‚ Nisar said curfew will be relaxed from 7.30 pm tonight to twelve midnight. He said negotiations were held with Ulema of all schools of thought, adding that Ulema demonstrated their prudence.
Fighting erupted on Friday in the garrison-city, which neighbours the capital Islamabad, when a procession by Shiite Muslims to mark the most important day of the mourning month of Muharram coincided with a sermon at a nearby Sunni mosque.
The groups attacked each other, TV cameramen and security forces, firing gunshots.
Rawalpindi has been under nearly complete curfew since the incident, which saw a large number of troops deployed there as well as in the southern city of Multan and Chishtian town to keep the peace.
Judge Mamoon Al-Rasheed of the Lahore High Court will head the probe, a court official said.
Meanwhile, Shahbaz Sharif, who is the chief minister of the Punjab province where the violence occurred, held talks with religious scholars in Rawalpindi and discussed compensation for the families of those killed, state television reported.
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