Saudi Ministry of Interior has launched the “Road to Makkah” initiative in five countries, including Pakistan for the fourth year since launching the initiative for the first time in 2019.

The initiative aims to receive the pilgrims and complete their procedures from their countries with ease.

According to Saudi Ministry of Interior this year the country will receive pilgrims from Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Morocco and Bangladesh under the Road to Makkah project.

Upon their arrival, the pilgrims scan their barcode and move directly to buses to take them to their places of residence in while the service authorities deliver their luggage to their place of residency.

The procedures include sorting pilgrims’ luggage from their countries to send to their place of residency in the Kingdom.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony issued Hajj flights schedule as the first flight under the Road to Makkah project would take off on June 6, from Islamabad, App reported on Friday.

“Above 32,000 intending pilgrims will proceed for Hajj through 106 flights,” the ministry’s spokesperson Muhammad Umar Butt said in a statement, adding that 42 flights would take off from Islamabad under Road to Makkah project,

He said that the flights schedule had been displayed on the ministry’s official website while the schedule had also been sent to the intending pilgrims via SMS on their contact numbers.

He said it was communicated to the intending pilgrims to get their biometric verification done from the nearest Aitamad Center as per schedule and contact the Haji Camps concerned for the mandatory vaccines, identity lockets, passports, Hajj visas, air tickets, and wristbands’ collection.