Geo436 Staff Report
KARACHI: A foreign airline has off-loaded 75 Hajj pilgrims at Quid-e-Azam International Airport in Karachi on Tuesday.
According to details, the local administration of the foreign airline off-loaded the Hajj pilgrims while saying that the airline can not take any woman Hajj
pilgrim, in group, to Saudi Arabia without the male escort.
The off-loaded Hajj pilgrims belong to the Jaffaria sect of Muslims and according to it women can go without male escort to perform Hajj and Umra and the Government of Saudi Arabia has also admitted it.
The Director of Hajj operation, Abdul Sattar, told Geo436 that he has been informed by the administration of the airline that the flight was scheduled to fly to Saudi Arabia via Bahrain.
He added that due to the indirect flight and that country's legal restriction on alone female Hajj
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