{"id":48913,"date":"2019-04-07T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T10:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48913"},"modified":"2019-04-07T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T10:41:39","slug":"makkah-road-initiative-to-enhance-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/makkah-road-initiative-to-enhance-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Makkah Road\u2019 initiative to enhance facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-48914\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kaba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"480\" \/>The supervisory committee of the Makkah Road initiative is continuing its tour of countries to follow up on efforts to implement it.<br \/>\nThe tour includes Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Tunisia. The initiative\u2019s implementation started two years ago, under the directives of King Salman and the crown prince, to enhance services for Hajj pilgrims and to facilitate their journeys.<br \/>\nThe initiative includes issuing visas, ensuring compliance with health requirements, and codifying and sorting luggage at airports in pilgrims\u2019 own countries.<br \/>\nThis enables pilgrims to bypass these procedures upon arrival in the Kingdom, and to head directly to buses waiting to transport them to their accommodations in Makkah and Madinah.<br \/>\nUnder the initiative, service authorities deliver pilgrims\u2019 luggage to their accommodations in those cities.<br \/>\nIn Malaysia, the committee held a meeting with officials, examined preparations for the initiative\u2019s implementation for the 2019 Hajj season, and toured Kuala Lumpur\u2019s international airport.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/makkah-road-initiative-to-enhance-facilities\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supervisory committee of the Makkah Road initiative is continuing its tour of countries to follow up on efforts to implement it. The tour includes Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Tunisia. The initiative\u2019s implementation started two years ago, under the directives of King Salman and the crown prince, to enhance services for Hajj pilgrims &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48915,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48913\/revisions\/48915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}