{"id":79351,"date":"2024-04-26T20:40:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/karachi-airport-included-in-saudi-road-to-makkah-project-for-hajj-pilgrims-pakistan-observer\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:40:04","slug":"karachi-airport-included-in-saudi-road-to-makkah-project-for-hajj-pilgrims-pakistan-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/karachi-airport-included-in-saudi-road-to-makkah-project-for-hajj-pilgrims-pakistan-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi Airport included in Saudi &#039;Road to Makkah&#039; project for Hajj Pilgrims &#8211; Pakistan Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"7ed32ac1-8788-4c7b-886d-5a76194a3c82\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>In a positive development, Hajj pilgrims departing from Karachi\u2019s Jinnah International Airport will undergo smooth immigration procedures in Pakistan instead of waiting in queues in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Under this initiative, dedicated counters are being set up at Karachi Jinnah International Airport, and once arrangements are finalized, pilgrims will no longer need to undergo immigration procedures at Jeddah and Madina airports.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s leading airport was added to Road to Makkah project on the orders of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>For this year, Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) allocated space for two dedicated counters for Hajj pilgrims departing from the port city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The \u2018Road to Makkah\u2019 initiative is part of Kingdom\u2019s initiative aiming to streamline Hajj programs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Meanwhile, Pakistan\u2019s Ministry of Religious Affairs had expressed intentions to expand the \u2018Road to Makkah\u2019 initiative to airports in Lahore and Karachi, which is currently available only at Islamabad International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>For 2024, the Asian nation holds around 180,000 seats allocated, including those for private Hajj operators. To attract applicants, the government allowed those who had performed Hajj in the last 5 years to apply. 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Under this initiative, dedicated counters are being set up at Karachi Jinnah International Airport, and once arrangements are finalized, pilgrims will no longer need to undergo immigration procedures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79352,"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:\/\/pakobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/nnne.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79351","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=79351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}