{"id":70590,"date":"2025-04-14T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70590"},"modified":"2025-04-14T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:10:03","slug":"over-60000-pakistani-pilgrims-deprived-of-performing-hajj-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/over-60000-pakistani-pilgrims-deprived-of-performing-hajj-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 60,000 Pakistani pilgrims deprived of performing Hajj 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Due<\/span> to<\/span> delays<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> agreement<\/span> and<\/span> payments<\/span> to the<\/span> Saudi<\/span> government<\/span>,<\/span> approximately<\/span> 67<\/span>,<\/span>000<\/span> Pakistani<\/span> pilgrims<\/span><\/a> will<\/span> not<\/span> be<\/span> able<\/span> to go<\/span> for<\/span> Hajj<\/span> in<\/span> 2025<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Religious Affairs<\/a> had allocated a total<\/span> quota of 179,210 pilgrims for Pakistan for<\/span> the<\/span> Hajj<\/span> season<\/span> –<\/span> 89,605 spots each for the<\/span> government and private tour operators<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Only<\/span> 14,000 applications were accepted under the private scheme, even<\/span> though<\/span> Hajj organizers failed to make timely bookings and payments.<\/p>\n

Although<\/span> the<\/span> Saudi<\/span> Ministry<\/span> of<\/span> Hajj<\/span> <\/a>for 67,000 pilgrims had<\/span> sent<\/span> SAR<\/span> 7<\/span> million<\/span> to<\/span> Saudi Arabia<\/span>,<\/span> they<\/span> had<\/span> rejected them<\/span> because<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> delay<\/span> in payment<\/span> and agreement<\/span> finalization<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In response to the Pakistan<\/span> government\u2019<\/span>s<\/span> special<\/span> request<\/span>, Saudi Arabia granted an additional 10,000 quotas;<\/span> however<\/span>, this<\/span> still<\/span> did<\/span> not<\/span> cover<\/span> the<\/span> substantial<\/span> number<\/span> of<\/span> applicants.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed<\/span> an inquiry into the reduction of possible<\/span> private Hajj quotas<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Accordingly<\/span>,<\/span> a<\/span> three-member committee was<\/span> constituted<\/span> to<\/span> carry<\/span> out<\/span> the inquiry<\/span> and<\/span> name<\/span> those<\/span> responsible<\/span> for<\/span> the lack<\/span> of<\/span> foresight, <\/span>committee<\/span>\u00a0headed<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> Secretary<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> Cabinet<\/span> Division<\/span>,<\/span> includes the Chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue,<\/span> the Federal Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan,<\/span> and must provide<\/span> their<\/span> report within three days.<\/p>\n

The committee will identify<\/span> the reasons for<\/span> the government’s failure to acquire<\/span> the private Hajj quota on time and assign<\/span> responsibility for the lapse.<\/p>\n

Hajj organizers have requested<\/span> the Prime Minister‘<\/span>s<\/span> intervention<\/span> to<\/span> help them<\/span> fix<\/span> the issue, which has left thousands of pilgrims disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Due to delays in the agreement and payments to the Saudi government, approximately 67,000 Pakistani pilgrims will not be able to go for Hajj in 2025. The Ministry of Religious Affairs had allocated a total quota of 179,210 pilgrims for Pakistan for the Hajj season – 89,605 spots each for the government and private […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":69980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9542,27793,27794],"class_list":["post-70590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ministry-of-religious-affairs","tag-pakistani-pilgrim","tag-saudi-ministry-of-hajj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70590","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=70590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70592,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70590\/revisions\/70592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}