{"id":44377,"date":"2018-01-15T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T07:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44377"},"modified":"2018-01-15T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T07:26:06","slug":"banks-to-start-receiving-hajj-applications-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44377","title":{"rendered":"Banks to start receiving Hajj applications today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Jan 15 (TNS):<\/strong> The designated branches of banks will start receiving Hajj applications from Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated by Spokesperson Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Imran Siddiqi during an interview with a radio channel.<\/p>\n<p>He said Hajj applications will be received from intending pilgrims till 24th of this month at thirteen designated bank branches across Pakistan, including Azad Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>The Spokesperson said that balloting for successful applicants will be held on 26th of this month.<\/p>\n<p>He said that successful applicants will be informed via SMS and general mail, while balloting results will also be available at www.mora.gov.pk.<\/p>\n<p>Imran Siddiqi said that this year total one hundred seventy-nine thousand two hundred and ten pilgrims from Pakistan will perform Hajj. This will include one hundred twenty thousand pilgrims under government scheme, while fifty-nine thousand two hundred and ten people will be taken under private Hajj scheme.<\/p>\n<p>To a question, he said Hajj package for north region will be two hundred eighty thousand rupees, while it will be two hundred seventy thousand rupees for south region.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that this time a quota of ten thousand has been fixed for those, who have been applying for the Hajj for last three years, but remained unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>He said that another ten thousand people under the age of eighty years and beyond has been allocated. He said that the pilgrims selected under this category will have to take a young blood relative as attendant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Jan 15 (TNS): The designated branches of banks will start receiving Hajj applications from Monday. This was stated by Spokesperson Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Imran Siddiqi during an interview with a radio channel. He said Hajj applications will be received from intending pilgrims till 24th of this month at thirteen designated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[2172,2171,118,589],"class_list":["post-44377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-download-hajj-form-2018","tag-hajj-2018-form","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44378,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44377\/revisions\/44378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}