ISLAMABAD:
The parliamentary panel has proposed that each MNA be allowed to nominate ten people for Hajj every year. He has also suggested sending a ten-member delegation to Madinah on an official visit every year to offer greetings at the Holy Prophet’s Mosque (PBUH).
A meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs was held on Monday under the chairmanship of MNA Shagufta Jamani.
During the meeting, the committee recommended that a 10-member parliamentary delegation be sent at the government’s expense to present greetings at 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 had already visited earlier to convey greetings on behalf of the people, and in future also a parliamentary delegation will travel to Madinah and Makkah every year.
Family members of the 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 president of the National Assembly, the president of the committee will lead the delegation, while the president will nominate the members of the delegation.
The committee chairman said that the president takes delegations of 15 members each and that the expenses of this parliamentary delegation must be borne by the National Assembly.
He added that if members had to bear the expenses themselves, it could not be called a delegation as they could travel privately at any time. “We want the National Assembly to bear these expenses,” he said. The committee members supported Shagufta Jamani’s opinion.
