Pakistan’s forest gump: Karachi to Makkah on foot for Hajj
Rai covered 6,387 km on foot to make his Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah.
Kharlzada Kasrat Rai, 37, set off for his pilgrimage on June 7 from Karachi, and walked across Iran, Iraq and Jordan to arrive in Saudi Arabia on October 1, according to IANS.
Rai covered 6,387 km on foot to make his Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah.
Rai told al Arabiya television that he had ventured on his Hajj trek as a mission of peace.
“I want peace in the entire world and I want the Islamic nations to unite like the European Union,” he said, adding that he also wanted to “condemn terrorism in all its manifestations.”
Kasrat Rai is an experienced walker.
In 2007, he walked 1,999 km across his home country in 85 days.
In 2009, he covered a distance of 327 km from Lahore to Islamabad in 14 days.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2013.
Rai covered 6,387 km on foot to make his Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah.
Rai told al Arabiya television that he had ventured on his Hajj trek as a mission of peace.
“I want peace in the entire world and I want the Islamic nations to unite like the European Union,” he said, adding that he also wanted to “condemn terrorism in all its manifestations.”
Kasrat Rai is an experienced walker.
In 2007, he walked 1,999 km across his home country in 85 days.
In 2009, he covered a distance of 327 km from Lahore to Islamabad in 14 days.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2013.