1.5m Pilgrims Expected To Perform Haj This Year
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published August 10, 2016 | 11:52 AM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Augst,2016) : As many as 1.5 million external and domestic pilgrims are expected to perform Haj this year, the Saudi Central Haj Committee told. The municipality informed that more than 23,000 workers would be doing the cleaning of Makkah and the holy sites. The first batches of pilgrims for this year's Haj arrived on Thursday in Jeddah and Madinah from the Indian subcontinent, Saudi Gazette reported. The first flight was from New Delhi that landed at Prince Muhammad International Airport in Madinah. It was followed by a flight from Pakistan while the first flight which landed at the Haj Terminal of Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) was from Dhaka, Bangladesh. A total number of 143,370 pilgrims from Pakistan and 136,020 from India will perform Haj this year.
The first batch of pilgrims from non-Arab African countries arrived at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah on Saturday from South Africa. As many as 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims will perform Haj this year as the guests of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman. They represent the families of the martyrs in the occupied lands, said an official with the guest pilgrim program. More than 7,000 staffers, representing 27 government and private agencies, have been engaged in implementing the Haj operation plan during the 75-day Haj season. According to the plan, all the lounges of the Haj terminal would be converted into arrival lounges from Aug.
4 to Sept. 5 and departure lounges from Sept. 17 to Oct. 16.
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