Ministry likely to issue Hajj flight schedule in second week of June

ISLAMABAD - Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony would issue Hajj flight schedule in second week of June, 2019, an official has said.

Talking to state-media, he said the details of Hajj flights would also be available on ministry's website. The intending pilgrims would be informed about their flight schedule, building, Maktab number and other relevant details through SMS and letters.

According to the tentative schedule, the month-long pre-Hajj flights would be started from the first week of July. He urged intending pilgrims to benefit from ministry's ongoing extensive training programmes as such programmes were most important for performing Hajj in accordance with the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH).

The official also urged intending pilgrims to benefit from Hajj training material available at ministry's website and ministry's facebook link.

Balloting to allot additional Hajj quota postponed

Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony has postponed the second balloting for distribution of additional quota among the unsuccessful applicants of Government Hajj Scheme, a spokesman of the ministry said Sunday.

In a statement, he said the new date of balloting would be announced after getting approval from the federal cabinet. It merits to mentioning here that the Saudi government had given additional quota of 16,000 to Pakistan out of which 60 percent will be allocated to the remaining applicants of Government Hajj Scheme, who were declared unsuccessful in recent balloting.

All unsuccessful applicants would be included in the balloting despite withdrawing money from their respective bank branches. However, they would have to deposit dues within four days of their selection.

This year 216,542 applications were received, out of which 107, 526 were declared successful in balloting conducted on March 11.