Hajj connection: Octogenarian Hajj traveller traceless
Khyal has appealed a arch probity of Pakistan to take suo motu notice in this regard. PHOTO: AFP
SHABQADAR: The locale of an octogenarian hailing from Charsadda, who went to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj, has nonetheless to be famous notwithstanding steady attempts by his family.
Even a Ministry of Religious Affairs has been clueless about Haji Abdul Ghafoor, 80, who had reportedly left blank on Aug 19 after praying in Masjid-e-Nabawi.
His son, Imdad Ullah Khyal, told The Express Tribune that his father over for Saudi Arabia on Aug 18 in a association of a Hajj group.
According to Khyal, his father exchanged oppressive difference with confidence guards stationed during a mosque, who had taken him into custody.
“My father can't pronounce Arabic and illiterate. The Hajj organisation he was partial of had sensitive me that he was expelled after on, though he could not strech his hotel,” Khyal said. He pronounced a Directorate Hajj had positive his family that each bid would be done to snippet him, though combined so distant no news about his locale has been listened from any quarters.
He pronounced in box he had died there or was in jail, “then during slightest a Pakistani authorities should surprise us”. Khyal pronounced his family has been flitting by a nightmarish conditions and combined that a method had reliable to a family that his father was not in a control of a Saudi authorities and that a authorities endangered have been perplexing their best to locate him.
On a other hand, a eremite affairs method pronounced that it was perplexing a best to locate him. Khyal has appealed a arch probity of Pakistan to take suo motu notice in this regard.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 22nd, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1206146/hajj-connection-octogenarian-hajj-pilgrim-traceless/