Facilitation: Pilgrims to get free Saudi SIMs

Hajj under the government scheme would get food and free transport for Haram Sharif

LAHORE: Saudi Arabia mobile phone SIMs will be given free of charge to the pilgrims going to perform Hajj under government scheme. Religious Affairs Secretary Sohail Amir said this while speaking at a training programme at Hajji Camp Lahore. According to a statement, Amir said that pilgrims who would perform Hajj under the government scheme would also get food and free transport for Haram Sharif. He further disclosed that Haj flights departure schedule would be finalized in current week. Meanwhile, vaccination of pilgrims would start from August 12.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 4^th, 2015.