ISLAMABAD – The federal government announced the names of over 107,000 successful applicants who would be performing Hajj 2019.
Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri opened computerised balloting for Hajj on Tuesday; the process would be completed tonight and successful applicants would be informed through SMS.
Applicants can also check their names through the official portal here.
The applicants who were not able to succeed over the past three years were declared successful this time without balloting.
“On the whole, 216623 applications were submitted. 123,700 by male applicants and 92,923 by female applicants,” Qadri announced adding that the government received 2,000 applications of applicants aged 80 to 90 years.
The minister expressed that two assistants each would be sent with elderly woman pilgrims.
“The highest number of application were received from Punjab i.e. 108,006 while from Sindh, 49,343 applications were submitted, followed by 40,752 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 10,258 from Balochistan,” the minister detailed.
From Azad Kashmir, 2,316 applications were received, 4,314 from tribal districts of KP and 2,422 from Gilgit-Baltistan.
Noorul Haq Qadri shared that this year, 184,210 Pakistanis will perform Hajj of which 107,526 will perform the annual pilgrimage under the government scheme and 71,684 under private schemes.
According to the 2019 Hajj policy, intending pilgrims have to pay Rs 436,975 and Rs19,451 as optional charges for sacrificial animals to perform the religious ritual this year.
