{"id":64713,"date":"2025-02-06T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=64713"},"modified":"2025-02-06T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:47:54","slug":"govt-reduces-package-costs-by-up-to-rs-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-reduces-package-costs-by-up-to-rs-50000\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt reduces Hajj package costs by up to Rs. 50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government has good news for the pilgrims going for Hajj in 2025 by reducing the package costs. Now the 40-day <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-to-refund-hajj-pilgrims-up-to-rs100000\/\">Hajj package<\/a> will cost Rs. 1,050,000, with a Rs. 25,000 discount from the original price.<\/p>\n<p>The short Hajj package of 25 days will cost Rs. 1,100,000, which is a discount of Rs. 50,000. This agreement came to be after successful negotiations with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/saudi-cabinet-okays-working-with-pakistan-to-combat-money-laundering\/\">Saudi authorities<\/a>, and it was a big win for the pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, the pilgrims will have to deposit the third installment between February 6 and 14 at selected banks, for a price of Rs. 450,000 for the long package and Rs. 500,000 for the short package.<\/p>\n<p>In another achievement, the government is also refunding Rs. 4.75 billion to last year&#8217;s pilgrims, which is comparatively a huge refund. Under the agreement for<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ministry-of-religious-affairs-issues-new-guidelines-for-hajj-pilgrim-2025\/\"> Hajj 2025<\/a>, 179,210 Pakistanis shall perform the pilgrimage, and they can expect better facilities and reduced accommodation costs in Mina.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, a specific mobile app will provide real-time updates, flight schedules, training schedules, and live maps. This will help keep the pilgrims organized and updated throughout their trip. A great year for Hajj pilgrims is in the making; package prices are down, and things are looking brighter in terms of facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government has good news for the pilgrims going for Hajj in 2025 by reducing the package costs. Now the 40-day Hajj package will cost Rs. 1,050,000, with a Rs. 25,000 discount from the original price. The short Hajj package of 25 days will cost Rs. 1,100,000, which is a discount of Rs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":35391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26338,26135],"class_list":["post-64713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-govt-reduces-hajj-cost","tag-hajj-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64717,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64713\/revisions\/64717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}