Sanaullah sends off 1st Hajj flight from Faisalabad
Our Correspondent Faisalabad
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has urged the intending pilgrims to play their role in further enhancing country’s prestige and dignity. He was speaking at Faisalabad airport while seeing off the first hajj flight from the city to Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
The Federal Interior Minister urged the pilgrims to comply with the directions of Saudi authorities during their stay to make their hajj hassle free. The Minister said the government has provided maximum facilities to the pilgrims. He said that Pakistan International Airlines will airlift 3500 intending plagiarism from Faisalabad to the holy land through twenty two flights.
Meanwhile, first flight of Pakistan International Airlines left for Saudi Arabia from Karachi airport carrying three hundred and twenty-eight intending pilgrims. The hajj flight operation also started at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport with 285 passengers leaving for the holy land. Adviser to the Prime Minister on Religious Affairs Shabbir Ahmed Usmani saw off the intending pilgrims.
The minister said the Saudi interior minister visited Pakistan recently and informed the authorities concerned that his government had made the best arrangements for the auspicious event. Similarly, the Pakistani government had also improved the Hajj arrangements, he added.
He said, “The Road to Makkah project has been launched this year from Peshawar and Islamabad to provide immigration facility in Pakistan instead of their immigration on their arrival in Jeddah and other Saudi Arab airports”. “Initially this facility was offered to 2,600 intending pilgrims, but on my request, the number was increased to 40,000. The next year, this project would be initiated from Karachi and other important cities of Punjab including Lahore and Faisalabad,” the minister added.
The Pakistan International Airlines would airlift approximately 3,500 passengers from Faisalabad Airport through 22 Hajj flights till June 16, 2023..
