21.   As Amir, the caretaker, was finishing his afternoon prayers, a couple with a baby and their elderly aunt walked in to pray at the graves.

22.   Attendance is usually high for afternoon prayers in mosques on Friday, the Muslim holy day.

23.   But before the instructor turned on the Arabic disco music, the two housewives knelt in a corner to say afternoon prayers.

24.   During cross-examination of witnesses on Monday, Hijazi broke into a loud recital of Quranic verses, at the hour when devout Muslims perform afternoon prayers.

25.   Gunmen in a car shot Maulana Mohammed Abdullah as he stepped from the mosque in Apara district of Islamabad after saying his afternoon prayers.

26.   Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians traditionally come to Jerusalem for afternoon prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan.

27.   In one incident, two armed youths stormed a Sunni Muslim shrine in the Punjab capital of Lahore as worshipers knelt for afternoon prayers.

28.   It was interrupted only for a short time when Saddam performed his afternoon prayers.

29.   Just before court adjourned Friday for afternoon prayers, High Court Judge Augustine Paul asked Anwar whether he, too, would be getting ready for prayers.

30.   Police took up posts outside mosques by midday, expecting protests to break out after the afternoon Muslim prayers.