Death toll of Tunisian pilgrims in Mecca reaches 53
On Friday, Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked Ibrahim Chaibi, the Minister of Religious Affairs, without specifying the reason for the dismissal
On Friday, Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked Ibrahim Chaibi, the Minister of Religious Affairs, without specifying the reason for the dismissal
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Mecca is the holiest place for Muslims and around 6000 pilgrims from the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh will fly from Srinagar till 20 June.
It is the second consecutive Haj limited to domestic pilgrims only in an attempt to prevent the further spread of Covid-19
Up to 10,000 people residing in the kingdom will participate in the Muslim ritual, a tiny fraction of the 2.5 million that attended last year, after what many saw as an opaque selection process that left a wave of applicants rejected.
The decision marks the first time in Saudi Arabia's modern history that Muslims outside the kingdom have been barred from performing the hajj, which last year drew 2.5 million pilgrims.
India's Minority Affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi expressed confidence that Muslims will abide by lockdown guidelines during the holy month of Ramzan.
The curfew does not apply to those working in key occupations in the private or governmental sector who were previously exempted.
The accident comes after four British pilgrims were killed and 12 others injured in Saudi Arabia after their bus collided with a fuel tanker last year in April. They were on their way to the holy city of Mecca.
Senior advocate Rajeev Dhawan, however, strongly pitched for granting respect to Lord Ram and Allah in a diverse country like India on the 29th day of the hearing in the politically sensitive case.
