{"id":6852,"date":"2025-08-08T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnp.com.pk\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:04:07","slug":"hajj-applications-to-continue-on-saturday-as-designated-banks-remain-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/hajj-applications-to-continue-on-saturday-as-designated-banks-remain-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Hajj applications to continue on Saturday as designated banks remain open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Friday, August 8, 2025 : The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony on Friday announced that all designated banks will remain open on Saturday, August 9, to facilitate the submission of Hajj applications.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ministry Spokesperson Muhammad Umar Butt said on the ministry\u2019s request, the State Bank of Pakistan has directed 14 nominated banks to continue receiving applications from registered Hajj pilgrims over the weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo far, more than 58,000 Hajj applications have been received,\u201d the spokesperson confirmed, adding that intending pilgrims can conveniently submit their applications either online or through any of the designated bank branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Friday, August 8, 2025 : The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony on Friday announced that all designated banks will remain open on Saturday, August 9, to facilitate the submission of Hajj applications. Ministry Spokesperson Muhammad Umar Butt said on the ministry\u2019s request, the State Bank of Pakistan has directed 14 nominated banks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-religious-diplomacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}