KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs on Sunday said 30,000 people from Afghanistan would perform this year’s hajj pilgrimage and the first flight to Saudi Arabia would depart on May 20.
Acting Hajj and Religious Affairs Minister Sheikh Noor Mohammad Saqib told a gathering in Kabul that those performing this year’s hajj would include common people, government officials, heirs of martyrs and disabled people and refugees.
He said the pilgrimage would cost 3,924 dollars (340,000 afghanis) per pilgrim this year. He added that this year Saudi Arabia had granted quota of 30 . . .
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Hijratullah Kakar
