Countrywide extensive Hajj training programmes underway.

ISLAMABAD, October 25, 2009 (Balochistan Times): The Ministry of Religious Affairs has arranged countrywide extensive Hajj training programmes to facilitate the intending pilgrims to perform Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia. Extensive Hajj training programmes are being conducted throughout the country to impart education to the pilgrims and make them familiar with Hajj rituals to be performed during the upcoming Hajj, said Joint Secretary (Hajj) Ministry of Religious Affairs Aftab-ul-Islam Raja here. He said provincial governments are holding training sessions in their respective areas to help specially those who are going to perform this religious obligation for the first time. At the centres, Aftab-ul-Islam Raja said training is being imparted with the help of models, charts, maps, sketches, lectures, VCRs and television. The intending Hajj pilgrims are taught that how to wear Ahram and observe sanctity of the holy places besides performing rituals at Madina and manners of offering prayers at Masjid-e-Nabvi and Salam at Roza-e-Rasool (Peace Be Upon Him), he added. The Joint Secretary said the training, informative booklets, Hajj literature are distributed among Hujjaj free of cost, while video cassettes facility is also provided to teach them that how they would have to perform the Hajj. According to the schedule, the training programmes would continue till October 18.

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