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Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated

By Staff Correspondent
Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated in the country Friday.
Alter a month of holy fasting Muslims prayed for peace, progress and prosperity of the nation during Eid congregations across the country. They also sought divine blessings for the unity and solidarity of the Muslim ummah.
In the capital, the main Eid congregation at the national Eidgah drew thousands of people.
Ii was attended among others by President Abdur Rahman Biswas, ministers. Supreme Court judges, diplomats’. political leaders and senior officials.
After the prayers the President exchanged Eid greetings with a cross-section of people.
People were generally, in a jovial nuxtd. iMoat wearing new dresses. The children, especially. were colourfully attired.
Thousands of people of the capital joined their near and dear ones in their village homes to celebrate the festival during the three-day national holidays that began last Thursday.
Although the city started looking deserted from Wednesday, the marketplaces remained crammed with last-minute shoppers till late Thursday night.
Shops in Elephant Road. Ghausia and Mouchak markets and other places remained open til) the early hours of Friday. The main roads in front of these shopping centres remained jammed Thursday night.
However, most city thoroughfares remained nearly deserted until yesterday.
As part of the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations, the national flag was hoisted atop public and private buildings and the main thoroughfares were decorated with flags and buntings in-scribed with Eld greetings.
Some public buildings were illuminated.
President Abdur Rahman Biswas held two receptions to exchange Eld greetings with people from different walks of life.
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia also hosted two receptions at her Hare Road office. These were attended by diplomats, ministers. MPs. political leaders, different professionals. businessmen, civil servants and defence officials.
Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina held a reception at the party's Dhanmondi office.
A colourful Eid parade in traditional Dhaka style was inaugurated in the older part of the city by Mayor Mohammad Hanif. The procession began from the Surltola Primary School premises on North-South Road. Horses and horse-drawn carriages, mounted elephants. trucks and other decorated floats formed part of the parade which was Joined by hundreds of people and onlookers. It paraded through Haji Osman Ghani Road. Kazi Alauddin Road and Abul Hasnat Road before ending at the Bahadur Shah Park. The processionists dressed as they liked, some sporting the most outlandish outfits that amused those lined up along the route tft watch.