ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Tuesday has announced names of over 107,000 successful applicants for Hajj 2019. Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri opened computerized balloting for Hajj, which would be completed tonight. The successful candidates would be informed through SMS. Under the government Hajj Scheme 2019, the applicants, who could not succeed over the past three years, were declared as successful without balloting. The government received 2,000 applications of applicants aged 80 to 90 years. The minister said that two assistants each would be sent with elderly woman pilgrims. He said that on the whole, 216623 applications were submitted; 123,700 by male applicants and 92,923 by female applicants. The ministry has also launched Electronic Monitoring System for resolving Hajj pilgrim’s complaints this year. https://twitter.com/pid_gov/status/1114948437919842304 According to the minister for Religious Affairs, the highest number of application, 108,006 were received from Punjab. Hajj applications submitted from Sindh were 49,343, from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) 40,752 and 10,258 from Balochistan. From Azad Kashmir, 2,316 applications were received, 4,314 from tribal districts of KP and 2,422 from Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). This year, 184,210 Pakistanis will perform Hajj of which 107,526 will perform the annual pilgrimage under the government scheme and 71,684 will under private schemes. According to the 2019 Hajj policy, intending pilgrims had to pay Rs 436,975 and Rs19,451 as optional charges for sacrificial animals.
