{"id":86961,"date":"2025-09-26T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=86961"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:48:22","slug":"new-policy-announced-for-pilgrims-unable-to-perform-hajj-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/new-policy-announced-for-pilgrims-unable-to-perform-hajj-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"New policy announced for pilgrims unable to perform Hajj 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/religious-affairs-minister-reveals-40000-pilgrims-are-missing\/\"> Ministry of Religious Affairs<\/a> declared a new policy for registered pilgrims who cannot perform Hajj because of unavoidable events, such as serious sickness or death.<\/p>\n<p>Under the ministry&#8217;s notification, in such instances, a close relative of the registered pilgrim will be entitled to perform Hajj on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>A pilgrim who cannot travel can substitute another individual or opt for a refund of the amount deposited.<\/p>\n<p>The policy also says that such a request for refund or substitution is required to be accompanied by valid grounds and supporting documents, like a death certificate or a medical certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants will also be asked to provide an affidavit on stamp paper, the original bank deposit slip, and a photocopy of the national identity card.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities said the new policy is to facilitate genuine cases without financial or procedural obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Religious Affairs declared a new policy for registered pilgrims who cannot perform Hajj because of unavoidable events, such as serious sickness or death. Under the ministry&#8217;s notification, in such instances, a close relative of the registered pilgrim will be entitled to perform Hajj on their behalf. A pilgrim who cannot travel [&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":[9542],"class_list":["post-86961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ministry-of-religious-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86961","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=86961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86962,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86961\/revisions\/86962"}],"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=86961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}