Flight schedule for intending pilgrims to be issued on 15th

Peshawar, 7 August 2011, Flight schedule for intending pilgrims would be issued on August 15. An official of ministry of Religious Affairs told Journalists that PIA has issued flight schedule to ministry in 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 the time of the intending pilgrims, he said.

He said the ministry will also launch an awareness campaign to facilitate the 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 programme would be arranged in collaboration with MOSASA, a Saudi organization dealing in Hajj affairs. The pilgrims would be imparted education to make them familiar with Hajj rituals to be performed during the upcoming Hajj.

The 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 centers, 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 how to perform the Haj