Pakistan has started accepting applications for Haj 2025. Within six days of launching the government’s Haj scheme, 15,844 applications for Haj were received. To make the Haj pilgrimage comfortable, this time the Government of Pakistan has also taken a measure based on which more and more applications for Haj are expected to come. This time, two lakh Pakistanis will go to perform Haj from Pakistan.
The highest number of initial applications came from Islamabad (5,485 applicants), Lahore (5,118 applicants) and Karachi (3,053 applicants).
Hajj becomes even cheaper for Pakistanis
Pakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs also reduced the airfare for Haj 2025. According to local media, each Haji will have to pay $50 less for the plane ticket than last year. In the year 2024, each Haji who was going to perform the Haj had to pay $850 for a plane ticket.
The Pakistani Ministry has reduced air fares by signing an agreement with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). After this agreement, those who go to the Haj will have to pay only $800 as a fee. 35,000 Hajis will be able to avail this discount.
The government of Pakistan has taken this step so that common people can also perform Haj in an era of rising inflation. Due to the reduction in airfares, there will be less burden on the Hajis and those who were worried about the increase in airfares will get relief.
Pakistani beggars who go to Saudi Arabia on the pretext of performing Haj and begging.
Saudi officials have also complained that beggars from Pakistan come to Saudi Arabia to beg during the Haj season. In view of Saudi complaints, Pakistan has recently taken significant measures against the beggar mafia.
Pakistan’s Home Minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi had said that the names of around 4,300 beggars had been included in the exit control list, meaning these beggars cannot leave the country and go abroad by plane. He said Pakistan is adopting a “zero tolerance” policy towards beggars going to Saudi Arabia.
