8 Aug 2019
MAKKAH: Saudi National Guard Minister Prince Abdullah bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz on Wednesday inspected the forces involved in serving this year’s Hajj pilgrims. Upon his arrival at the National Guard’s camp in Al-Sharai, Makkah, the minister reviewed guard units and watched a performance of combat riots and displays of individual and collective skills.
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7 Aug 2019
About 125,000 Bangladeshi pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj this year following a round-the-clock operation by Bangladesh’s Hajj mission in Dhaka. “A 40-member team from the Religious Affairs Ministry has been added to the regular Hajj staffers to help the pilgrims heading to Makkah,” Saiful Islam, director of the Hajj office in Dhaka, told Arab News.
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7 Aug 2019
Talking to Okaz/Saudi Gazette here on Tuesday, the governor said the commission has allocated more frequency bands so as to increase internet speed threefold.
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7 Aug 2019
JEDDAH: The last pilgrims traveling under Saudi Arabia’s Makkah Route Initiative arrived in the Kingdom Wednesday ahead of Hajj. The program established last year allows pilgrims to complete their entry paperwork in the airports they are departing from rather than once they arrive in Saudi Arabia. More than 171,000 pilgrims from Tunisia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and
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7 Aug 2019
The General Authority for Statistics said that the number of peopling medical services (including cases of emergency) to Haj pilgrims this season amounted to 30,908 individuals, including 8,685 women, according to the report.
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