Arrangements are being finalised for operating Hajj flights from Sialkot International Airport, said Chairman Sialkot International Airport, Naeem Akhtar. Talking to Business Recorder here Wednesday, Akhtar said the first Hajj flight carrying 470 pilgrims will take off from Sialkot on November 13, adding that one flight per day would be operated from the airport and flights would be accomplished by November 21.
He informed over four thousand pilgrims, belonging to Sialkot, Daska, Narowal, Pasrur, Gujrat, Wazirabad, Gujranwala and Jhelum would benefi from the programme. The PIA would provide transport facilities to the pilgrim from Haji camp Sambrial to Sialkot International Airport. We have invited Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, requesting him to see off the Hajj pilgrims of fist flight, he added.