Flight schedule for intending pilgrims to be issued on August 15

ISLAMABAD: Flight Schedule for intending pilgrims would be issued on August 15.

An official of ministry of Religious Affairs told APP that PIA has issued flight schedule to ministry on July and it would be dispatched to the successful pilgrims by August 15.

He said process to hire buildings for intending pilgrim has already been completed.

He said intending pilgrims belonging to same districts will be accommodated in one flight and one building. While the PIA will allot them terminals in advance to save time of intending pilgrims, he said.

He said the ministry will also launch an awareness campaign to facilitate intending pilgrims.

He said ministry is also planning countrywide extensive Hajj training programmes to facilitate the intending pilgrims in performing Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia.

This year, the training programmes would be arranged in collaboration with MOSASA, a Saudi organization dealing in Hajj affairs.

Pilgrims would be imparted education to make them familiar with Hajj rituals to be performed during the upcoming Hajj.

Provincial governments will hold training sessions in their respective areas to help specially those who are going to perform this religious obligation for the first time.

At the centres, training will be imparted with the help of models, charts, maps, sketches, lectures and video documentaries. "The intending Hajj pilgrims will be taught that how to wear `Ahram' and observe sanctity of the holy places besides performing rituals at Madina and manners of offering prayers at Masjid-e-Nabvi and `Salam' at Roza-e-Rasool (Peace Be Upon Him)," he said.

The training, informative booklets and Hajj literature will be provided to Hujjaj besides video cassettes facility to teach them that how they will have to perform the Hajj.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011