{"id":45827,"date":"2024-01-09T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/indian-minister-visits-madina-after-new-delhi-riyadh-sign-haj-agreement-reports\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:21:54","slug":"indian-minister-visits-madina-after-new-delhi-riyadh-sign-haj-agreement-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/indian-minister-visits-madina-after-new-delhi-riyadh-sign-haj-agreement-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian minister visits Madina after New Delhi, Riyadh sign Haj agreement: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Indian delegation led by Union Minister Smriti Irani visited Madina over the weekend as part of a two-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Indian media outlets reported.<\/p>\n

According to The Indian Express<\/a><\/em>, Irani \u2014 who is also the women and child development minister \u2014 travelled to Madina along with Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and other senior officials.<\/p>\n

It said the delegation interacted with Indian volunteers \u201cwho provide dedicated and selfless service to Indian Haj pilgrims, including during Haj 2023\u201d and Umrah pilgrims from India.<\/p>\n

In a post shared on social media platform X on Monday, Irani shared photos from her visit and said: \u201cUndertook a historic journey to Medina today, one of Islam\u2019s holiest cities included a visit to the periphery of the revered Prophet\u2019s Mosque, Al Masjid Al Nabwi, the mountain of Uhud, and periphery of the Quba Mosque \u2014 the first Mosque of Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that the significance of the visit to these sites \u201cintertwined with early Islamic history\u201d and \u201cunderscores the depth of our cultural and spiritual engagement\u201d.<\/p>\n

It must be noted that non-Muslims were not allowed to visit Madina up until 2021, after which a relaxation<\/a> of rules allowed them to visit the city centre up to the periphery of the Prophet\u2019s Mosque.<\/p>\n

According to The Indian Express<\/em>, Irani\u2019s visit came two days after India and Saudi Arabia signed a bilateral agreement under which New Delhi was allocated a quota of 175,025 pilgrims for this year\u2019s annual Haj pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bilateral Haj Agreement 2024 was signed with Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, the Saudi Minister for Hajj and Umrah, at Jeddah,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a report<\/a> published in India Today<\/em> said Irani\u2019s visit to Saudi Arabia would \u201cgive an idea of the arrangements required to be made for the Haj pilgrimage this year\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government of India is deeply committed to assist in providing facilities and services to Indian Muslims who undertake the Haj pilgrimage, thereby providing them with a comfortable and fulfilling experience,\u201d it quoted an official statement as saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndia and Saudi Arabia share warm and cordial ties and the Government of India deeply appreciates the special gesture of Saudi\u2019s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah in facilitating this visit of the Indian delegation to Madinah,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Indian delegation led by Union Minister Smriti Irani visited Madina over the weekend as part of a two-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Indian media outlets reported. According to The Indian Express, Irani \u2014 who is also the women and child development minister \u2014 travelled to Madina along with Minister of State for External Affairs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/01\/091641581bff2bf.jpg?r=181026","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}