Tag

The meeting discussed threadbare various issues pertaining to arrival of Haj Flights, reception, arrival timings, transfer of luggage and Zam Zam, deployment of volunteers, vehicle passes to attendants and transportation arrangements for pilgrims of Jammu and Ladakh.

He directed the officials of prime minister’s office to telephone all the relatives of 63 missing pilgrims and acquaint them with the latest information.

“We must not forget that the roots of today’s wars, destruction, and terror can be found in the occupation, invasion and military intervention of yesterday”, Rouhani said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.

He said Saudi authorities blocked a road used by hajj pilgrims to allow a royal convoy to pass through, causing the deadly convergence in Mina, a town on the outskirts of Mecca.

The dispute came amid tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia over the conflicts in Yemen and Syria that Riyadh views as a bid by Tehran to expand its influence in the region.

Nations around the globe started providing details regarding losses and their missing, including Pakistan, which said no less than 236 of its explorers were unaccounted for on Friday. Pakistani officials earlier said that seven Pakistani pilgrims were killed and six injured in...

The death toll from Thursday’s stampede at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Haj, has risen to 769.

President Aquino has directed concerned agencies to ensure that the necessary assistance is extended to the family of the Filipino who died in the hajj pilgrimage stampede in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

“That is an increase of 52 on the previous figures”, Saudi health minister Khalid al-Falih told a news conference. The death of more than 1,000 people is not a small issue.

Members of Saudi civil defence try to rescue pilgrims following a crush caused by large numbers of people pushing at Mina, outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

The hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam, and all able-bodied Muslims are required to make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lives.

“It is built mostly along sectarian and ideological lines – Saudi Arabia as the leader of the Sunni Muslim world, and Iran as the leader of the Shia Muslim world”, Martin Reardon, a senior vice president with The Soufan Group, wrote on Aljazeera.com in March....

AP reporter Aya Batrawy, speaking on Thursday’s All Things Considered, said that “from the survivors that I spoke to, they say that for them, it’s pretty clear that the Saudi authorities didn’t manage the crowds properly”.

Medics rush to the site where pilgrims were crushed and trampled to…

At least 863 people were injured, the directorate said. Afghan News Agency on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook.