The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony on Friday halted the balloting of official Hajj applications due to ‘unclear’ policy on the quota of operators as well as a court stay order.
ISLAMABAD, (Pakistan Point News - 26th Jan, 2018) : The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony on Friday halted the balloting of official Hajj applications due to ‘unclear’ policy on the quota of operators as well as a court stay order. Secretary of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Khalid Masood shared that the balloting has been halted due to various verdicts by three different courts on the quota issue. He said that the Lahore High Court had ordered that quota for government and private Hajj operators should be 50/50.
Later, a two-member bench of the Sindh High Court had ordered that the quota should be 60 percent for government operators and 40 percent for private operators, he remarked, adding that on Thursday the Sindh High Court's Sukkur Bench ordered a stay on the balloting process. A petitioner had approached the high court against the clause in the government's new policy which states that individuals need to wait for a certain period before performing the holy pilgrimage again.
