Haj tour operators working in Qatar faced losses amounting to over QR30m during the 2017 season of Haj due to siege, said Yousef Ahmed Al Kuwari, spokesman for the Haj and Umrah agencies of Qatar.
Read more Official will be responsible to formulate Hajj plan and resolve problems of pilgrims
Read more Sheikh said there would be special new baggage tags for the pilgrims after their arrival in the Kingdom. “There will be different colored tags for different states and so it will be very easier to identify them apart from mitigating chances for losing baggage,” he said, while unveiling plans to introduce new device for locating maktabs in Mina in addition to including more features in the mobile App.
Read more Reports by UK, Israel are ‘illogical’, says Saudi ambassador to Indonesia
Read more Aymann Ismail, writing in the online magazine Slate, had a point when he recently wondered why “more Muslims don’t question the powers that control our most sacred site — and how the Saudis have already twisted it to their own political and financial ends.”
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