{"id":243352,"date":"2022-02-09T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T03:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=243352"},"modified":"2022-02-09T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T03:36:13","slug":"lahore-karachi-included-in-road-to-makkah-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/lahore-karachi-included-in-road-to-makkah-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahore, Karachi included in \u2018Road to Makkah\u2019 Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia\u2019s Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif in a day-long visit to Islamabad principally decided to include Lahore and Karachi in \u2018Road to Makkah Project.<br \/>\nSources claimed that pilgrims from Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi will directly land at the Makkah airport and their luggage will directly be transported to their hotel destinations.<br \/>\nOnce these cities are included in the Road to Makkah project the pilgrims will not undergo custom checking at the Saudi airports. Source said that cities inclusion agreement will be inked on the eve of the Hajj agreement this year.<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia\u2019s interior minister was on a day-long visit to Pakistan. Besides holding a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, he also met with Noor ul Haq Qadri.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Umrah and Hajj pilgrims\u2019 visa and immigration issues under COVID-19 standard operating procedures were discussed between the two dignitaries. Religious Minister Qadri appreciated the Saudi government and interior ministry\u2019s unflinching services for the security of Umrah and Hajj pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an official of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony said it was taking all anticipatory actions for smooth operation of Hajj 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Hajj Ministry urged the intending pilgrims not to submit their hard-earned money to any private tour operator as long as the Hajj Policy 2022 was not announced by the ministry and also cautioned the tour operators of strict action for collecting money in the wake of Hajj applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Saudi Arabia\u2019s Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif in a day-long visit to Islamabad principally decided to include Lahore and Karachi in \u2018Road to Makkah Project. Sources claimed that pilgrims from Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi will directly land at the Makkah airport and their luggage will directly be transported to their hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lahore, Karachi included in \u2018Road to Makkah\u2019 Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/lahore-karachi-included-in-road-to-makkah-project\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lahore, Karachi included in \u2018Road to Makkah\u2019 Project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD Saudi Arabia\u2019s Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif in a day-long visit to Islamabad principally decided to include Lahore and Karachi in \u2018Road to Makkah Project. 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