- First installment collected digitally as applications open under government Hajj scheme
- Pakistan’s new four-year policy reserves 60 percent of pilgrimage quota for government scheme
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- Parents say repeated hospital visits, medicine costs are straining families months after infections emerged
- Outbreak adds to wider concerns over pediatric HIV infections, unsafe medical practices in the country
- The Saudi carrier is expected to operate three flights per week between Riyadh and Lahore
- Riyadh Air began its Pakistan operations with an inaugural flight to Islamabad on August 14
- Rescue highlights Saudi Arabia’s push for safe marine activities
- As tourism grows, safety vital along Kingdom’s 1,800-km coast
- Iran’s armed forces say it would be tantamount to joining American military operations
- Fire raging in the High Fens nature reserve “has been encircled” and is not moving east toward Germany
- On-site operations have been complicated by the fens’ terrain — a patchwork of heath, peat bogs and raised wooden boardwalks
- Riyadh Metro has nearly three-quarters of urban journeys
- Rail passenger traffic rises by over 11m trips year-on-year
- Former world number 13 failed a doping test during an ATP event in Mallorca, Spain on June 22
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Islamabad Memorandum
- Dar tells Araghchi recent understandings under Islamabad MoU should underpin peace efforts
- Deputy PM warns SCO against efforts to derail US-Iran peace process following Houthi attacks
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What's Dariyah?
Located in Saudi Arabia's central region of Qassim, Dariyah was an important stop on ancient trade and pilgrimage routes and is now one of the Kingdom's significant archaeological sites. Earlier this week, the Saudi Heritage Commission announced that a collection of 100 pieces of gold jewelry dating back to the Abbasid era has been discovered in the site.
Who is “The Joshie-Man”?
It’s a name given by social media fans to Joshua Harris, a 12-year-old autistic and non-verbal Briton, who has been visiting UK mosques and distributing cakes to promote solidarity amid an increase in far-right support in the country. On a recent trip to Madinah with his father, “The Joshie-Man” turned his ‘Cake not hate’ campaign to ‘Dates not hate’ by handing out the holy city’s famous ajwa and ambar dates people in the courtyard of the Prophet’s Mosque.
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Pakistan Afghanistan Conflict
- Amnesty has demanded a probe into a Pakistani airstrike in March that UN says killed over 260
- Pakistan’s foreign office says Amnesty levelled serious allegations without providing “credible evidence“
