ISLAMABAD: The government will begin accepting applications for the official Hajj scheme on August 4, following the approval ...

The government will start receiving applications for the official Hajj scheme from August 4, following the federal cabinet's ...

The government will begin accepting Hajj 2026 applications from August 4 under the officially approved Hajj Policy 2026.

The project gained momentum following Saudi Arabia’s planned legal reforms that will allow foreign institutions to own land ...

Mecca is Islam’s holiest city and a focal point for followers of the faith, but it's also home to about 2 million people who live everyday life there.

More than 1.83 million Muslims performed the Hajj in 2024, including more than 1.6 million from 22 countries, and around 222,000 Saudi citizens and residents, according to the Saudi Hajj authorities.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its ...

A separate crane collapse at Mecca's Grand Mosque earlier the same year killed 111. The second-deadliest incident at the Hajj was a 1990 stampede that killed 1,426 people.

Minister of Investment and Downstreaming Rosan Roeslani briefed President Prabowo Subianto on the ongoing land acquisition in ...

Tens of thousands of vaccinated Muslim pilgrims circled Islam’s holiest site in Mecca on Sunday, but remained socially distanced and wore masks as the coronavirus takes its toll on the hajj for ...

More than 1.5 million pilgrims from around the world have already amassed in and around Mecca for the Hajj, and the number was still growing as more pilgrims from inside Saudi Arabia joined.