Tag: Haj

A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) set aside on Monday Haj quotas for 2011 allocated to 650 select Haj group organisers,...

A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday restrained the Religious Affairs Ministry from finalising the process of Haj quota allocation...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Friday ordered constituting a division bench (DB) to hear petitions challenging the Haj...

The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) team probing into the Haj scam returned disappointed from Saudi Arabia last Tuesday, as it failed to investigate a...

Rejecting a report by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) into the Haj scam, the Supreme Court on Friday directed agency’s director general to produce...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Monday linked the allotment of Haj quota to private tour operators with the...

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday told the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general to bring back the officers who were investigating the Haj...

ISLAMABAD - The Saudi government has paid the amount for 449 people who performed Haj on the government level during last two years.
Quoting sources, a private TV channel reported that the Saudi government has paid Rs 3 crore to the ministry of religious affairs.
It may be recalled here that the investigations have also been undertaken in Pakistan to expose the culprits of the Haj scandal.
In this regard a number of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials and

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khurshid Shah on Monday informed the National Assembly that no amount was outstanding against any state institution for the performance of Haj 2010 by 94 government officials and all dues had been paid by their respective organisations. Responding to a question in his written statement, the minister said per haj policy, four contingents of 250 seasonal duty staff (150 from Ministry of Religious Affairs and another 100 from other

ISLAMABAD - With the Supreme Court already annoyed with the government for delaying the implementation of its orders and assignment of investigation into mega scams to honest and upright officials, the government has once again transferred a senior Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) official at the final stage of investigation into the haj scam.
A source in the FIA told Pakistan Today that the transfer of FIA Director Hussain Asghar and his posting as Gilgit-Baltistan inspector

ISLAMABAD - The federal cabinet approved the Haj Policy, 2011 in a meeting at Prime Minister (PM)'s Secretariat on Wednesday chaired by PM Yousaf Raza Gilani, who told the Religious Affairs Ministry to take all stakeholders on board and launch an extensive awareness campaign to make the system transparent and help pilgrims understand the Haj arrangements properly.
The cabinet was told that Saudi Arabia had increased the quota of Pakistani pilgrims for 2011 by 19,609, bringing the

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Saturday announced April 15 as the new date for submitting Haj applications in the designated branches of banks under the government scheme across the country. Earlier, the ministry had planned to start the process from April 10, said a press release.

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs approved the new Haj Policy of 2011 on Thursday with directions to the Religious Affairs Ministry to take measures to ensure proper implementation of the policy to provide as much relief to the pilgrims as possible.
The committee, which met here at ministry offices with Maulana Qasim Jan in the chair, also told the ministry to rectify the mistakes that had previously caused embarrassment for pilgrims,

ISLAMABAD - A total of 179,256 Pakistanis will perform haj this year under the government and private quotas at an expense ranging from Rs 200,847 to Rs 222,047.
Applications for haj would be invited in the running month of April. While giving briefing on the Draft Haj Policy for 2011, Ministry of Religious Affairs Secretary Shaukat Hayat Durrani told the Senate Standing Committee on Religious Affairs on Wednesday that the ministry has introduced two categories of accommodation

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has unearthed another scandal involving the Interior Ministry where 248 people, including journalists and politicians, were sent for a "free Haj" at the expense of pilgrims' money deposited with the Religious Affairs Ministry in 2010.
A source in the FIA told Pakistan Today that investigation into the scandal revealed that 248 people were recommended by Interior Ministry officials, upon verbal instructions from Interior Minister

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Khursheed Shah on Thursday announced that the system of random draws for Haj has been abolished. He also announced to award Haj pilgrims' quota to 96 group organisers, who had been enrolled on the orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan. Speaking at Haj Conference 2011 being held under the auspices of Punjab Haj Organisers Association Pakistan, Shah said that Haj applications will be accepted from April 10 to April 30, 2011.
He

LAHORE - An accountability court on Friday handed over former Haj director Rao Shakeel Ahmad to NAB on physical remand until April 1. Rao is involved in piling up illegal assets and was arrested on March 17 in Lahore on charges of maintaining various bank accounts, through which he made heavy transactions. During the hearing, counsel for the accused Amjad Pervaiz argued that NAB initiated an inquiry against Rao in 2001 and at the end he had been declared innocent.
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