{"id":80710,"date":"2025-07-17T18:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=80710"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:06:45","slug":"govt-likely-to-decrease-hajj-umrah-prices-for-pakistani-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-likely-to-decrease-hajj-umrah-prices-for-pakistani-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt likely to decrease Hajj, Umrah prices for Pakistani pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH: Federal Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Muhammad Yousaf has praised Saudi travel and hospitality companies for launching a $40 million fund to ease the costs of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/government-to-prioritize-pilgrims-deprived-of-hajj-this-time-for-next-year\/\">Pakistani Hajj and Umrah pilgrims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a ceremony, the minister said that the scheme could bring down the cost of pilgrimage per person by as much as Rs50,000, bringing a welcome relief to thousands of Pakistani pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>The overall fund, which is equivalent to about Rs15 billion in domestic currency, is expected to bring major improvements in services and affordability for Hajj and Umrah travelers.<\/p>\n<p>The minister further announced that a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/man-forgets-wife-at-motorways-service-after-prayer-break-near-jaranwala\/\">new prayer calendar<\/a> (Nizam-e-Salat) will be introduced in Islamabad shortly to foster religious harmony.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that Pakistani pilgrims going to Iran, Iraq, and Syria would now be grouped together, just like the arrangements being made for Hajj and Umrah.<\/p>\n<p>At another meeting with the Shia Ulema Council delegation, efforts for peace and inter-sect harmony throughout the nation were highlighted. Both parties agreed to work together and bring about religious harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to recent news, Sardar Yousaf said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has turned down the preliminary probe into the 63,000 pilgrims&#8217; case who could not fulfill their Hajj. Now, a second committee has been entrusted with a new inquiry into the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH: Federal Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Muhammad Yousaf has praised Saudi travel and hospitality companies for launching a $40 million fund to ease the costs of Pakistani Hajj and Umrah pilgrims. Addressing a ceremony, the minister said that the scheme could bring down the cost of pilgrimage per person by as much as Rs50,000, bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30176,30175],"class_list":["post-80710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-hajj-and-umrah-prices-to-decrease","tag-pakistani-hajj-and-umrah-pilgrims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80710","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=80710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80711,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80710\/revisions\/80711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}