ISLAMABAD
\nThe federal government has fixed the expenses of Hajj for public and private pilgrims between Rs6,50,000 to Rs8,60,000.
\nFederal Minister for Religious Affairs Mufti Abdul Shakoor addressed a press conference and said the federal cabinet has also approved a subsidy of Rs1,50,000 per pilgrim for the Hajj package.
\nThe federal minister informed that the official Hajj package will be from Rs6,50,000 to Rs7,10,000 while the Hajj expenses for the Northern Region have been fixed for private pilgrims at Rs8,51,000 and for the Southern Region up to Rs8,60,000.
\nMufti Abdul Shakoor providing financial details of the Hajj cost said Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have 52 per cent compulsory expenditures, 21 per cent airfare and 27 per cent other spending.
\nHe informed the media that Saudi Arabia has reduced Pakistan\u2019s total quota from 180,000 to 81,210 this year following the coronavirus situation. The Federal Minister for Religious Affairs said that other arrangements including hotel and transport have been reviewed in Makkah and Madinah.
\nMufti Abdul Shakoor said for the last two years, the per bed accommodation has been reduced from 2600 riyals to 2100 riyals while the pilgrims will be charged 27 riyals for three meals a day.
\nIt is pertinent to mention here that the national flag carrier \u2014 Pakistan International Airline (PIA) \u2014 will begin this year\u2019s Hajj flight operations from June 6.
\nAccording to PIA spokesperson, the first Hajj flight will depart for Madina from Islamabad on June 6. PIA said the Hajj flights to Saudi Arabia would fly to Jeddah and Madinah.
\n\u201cThe national flag carrier will operate overall 400 pre and post-Hajj flights from May 31 to August 13,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s national flag carrier said in a statement.
\nHajj operation will be carried out from 8 cities of Pakistan including Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Multan, Peshawar and Quetta, the statement read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD The federal government has fixed the expenses of Hajj for public and private pilgrims between Rs6,50,000 to Rs8,60,000. Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Mufti Abdul Shakoor addressed a press conference and said the federal cabinet has also approved a subsidy of Rs1,50,000 per pilgrim for the Hajj package. The federal minister informed that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7953,5542],"class_list":["post-263728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","tag-expenses","tag-hajj"],"yoast_head":"\n