Tag: Hajj

More than 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims began on Friday the rites of the hajj, leaving the holy city of Makkah for Mount Arafat. Dressed in...

Around 2.5 million Muslims begin Friday the rituals of the hajj pilgrimage, the world's largest annual assembly, leaving Saudi authorities with a daunting security...

There was no fire on PIA Boeing 747 aircraft, flight number PK 1458 and with no passengers on board according to Pakistan International Airline's...

After the government allowed international airlines to fly Pakistani pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, the first such flight took off at 5:50am on Thursday. According to...

The Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Lahore will organise a two-day Annual Haj Training Programme for intending pilgrims from September 26 to 27 at the...

Extensive Hajj training programmes is underway across the country to facilitate the intending pilgrims in performing Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia. An official of Ministry...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the interior ministry to cancel the transfer of the Hajj corruption probing officer, Hussain Asghar. A three-member Supreme...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) on Monday ordered to restore the previous FIA team that was investigating the hajj corruption case. A six-member bench...

The world’s largest exhibition on the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, is to be staged at the British Museum, it has been announced. Manuscripts,...

Supreme Court (SC) Thursday granted appeals of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and private tour operators in Hajj quota case and declared the Lahore...

In pursuance of directives of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, ministry for religious affairs has approved all the...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday issued a stay order against enforcement of Hajj and Umra Policy, 2011 and called replies from the...

The Federal Religious Affairs Ministry has allocated quota to 700 Haj Group Organisers (HGO) while details about the number of pilgrims to be served...

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has so far failed to produce any evidence of corruption against former religious affairs minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi. Kazmi is...

ISLAMABAD - The collection of the Hajj applications have been started from Friday on a first come, first serve basis.
According to a private news channel, political workers, journalists and even government officials would have to pay the Hajj fee in advance.
Machine readable passports and national identity cards will be compulsory for eligibility.
This year, there has been an increase in the quota of pilgrims by 20,000 and no one will be performing Hajj, free of

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Religious Affairs is all set to present the draft of Hajj policy-2011 before the Federal Cabinet for final approval as it has already been discussed in the Senate and National Assembly Standing Committees on Religious Affairs.
This year, according to draft of the new policy, around 179,256 intending pilgrims will be sent to Saudi Arabia for performing the religious obligation under both the government and private Hajj schemes.
After getting the

ISLAMABAD - Former Science and Technology minister Azam Khan Swati on Tuesday said that he would present more evidence before the court on January 6, 2011 pertaining to alleged corruption in the Hajj operations.
Talking to journalists, Swati said he was sacked for raising his voice against corruption. "For me, this is a matter of honour," he said, adding that those behind the corruption have been exposed. He hoped that the justice system would act against corrupt.