ISLAMABAD:
The parliamentary committee proposed that each MP be allowed to nominate ten people for Hajj every year. He also suggested sending a ten-member delegation to Madinah on an official visit every year to offer greetings at the Holy Prophet (PBUH) Mosque.
A meeting of the Standing Committee on Religious Affairs of the National Assembly was held on Monday under the chairmanship of MP Shagufta Jamani.
During the meeting, the committee recommended that a 10-member parliamentary delegation be sent at government expense to extend greetings to Roza-e-Rasool (PBUH). The official delegation will also offer nawafil at Masjid-e-Nabvi and offer greetings on behalf of the Pakistani nation.
It was stated that such delegations have visited previously to convey greetings on behalf of the people and in future also a parliamentary delegation will visit Madinah and Makkah every year.
Family members of members of the delegation may also accompany them. The delegation, on behalf of the public, will perform Umrah in Mecca. In the absence of the NA President, the committee chair will lead the delegation, while the president will appoint the members of the delegation.
The committee chairman said the speaker is taking delegations of 15 members each, and the expenses of this parliamentary delegation should be borne by the National Assembly.
She added that if members had to bear the expenses themselves, it could not be called a delegation, because they could travel privately at any time. “We want the National Assembly to take charge of these expenses,” she declared. The committee members agreed with Shagufta Jamani’s point of view.
