{"id":49145,"date":"2025-07-16T06:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=49145"},"modified":"2025-07-16T06:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:59:36","slug":"40-thousand-pakistani-pilgrims-missing-in-iran-iraq-and-syria-gov-has-no-idea-where-they-went-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/40-thousand-pakistani-pilgrims-missing-in-iran-iraq-and-syria-gov-has-no-idea-where-they-went-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Thousand Pakistani Pilgrims Missing in Iran, iraq and Syria ! Gov has NO IDEA Where they Went : Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49147\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pakistan-Zaireen-Missing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pakistan-Zaireen-Missing.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pakistan-Zaireen-Missing-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><strong>Tazeen Akhtar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To the extreme astonishment of many in four countries Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria, about 40 thousand Pakistani pilgrims are missing in the other three countries while the govs of all have no idea where they are or where they went? Arab media is highlighting the matter and raising questions on the system of safety and security on this route.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Minister for Religious Affairs, Sardar Yousuf , in a press conference shared this figure and said, &#8221; We do not know the whereabouts of these Pakistanis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here it is mentionable that Pakistan recieved 14 hundered applications from Ziyaarat tourism operators and among them only 585 had followed the mandatory security requirements of gov of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, Iran, Iraq has reshaped the system and agreed to see the matter seriously. The concerned ministers met in Tehran after the other three countries than Pakistan, raised the matter with Islamabad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1teaMZ2ll5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/joint-working-group-of-pakistan-iran-and-iraq-to-facilitate-pilgrims\/\">Joint working group of Pakistan, Iran and Iraq to facilitate Pilgrims<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Joint working group of Pakistan, Iran and Iraq to facilitate Pilgrims&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/joint-working-group-of-pakistan-iran-and-iraq-to-facilitate-pilgrims\/embed\/#?secret=8XEDhiBHzj#?secret=1teaMZ2ll5\" data-secret=\"1teaMZ2ll5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sardar Muhammad Yousuf said that the government has no record of these pilgrims. &#8220;We have taken a major decision to organize the pilgrims by introducing a new computerized system. Under this system, pilgrims will now travel only through designated, registered pilgrim group operators, he shared.<\/p>\n<p>He said, the government is also introducing a new integrated system for pilgrimages to the holy sites in Iran and Iraq. The old caravan leader system will soon be abolished, and interested companies are urged to register immediately with the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>A trilateral conference of Interior Ministers of Pakistan, Iran and Iraq was held two days ago in Tehran. During the conference, It was agreed to take all possible steps to facilitate pilgrims visiting Iran and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>It was also decided to form a joint working group of Pakistan, Iran and Iraq to facilitate pilgrims. Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, while addressing the trilateral conference, thanked Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni for organizing a trilateral conference to resolve the problems of pilgrims at the request of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>He said that pilgrims going to Iraq and Iran are very important for us and the trilateral conference will lead towards provision of more facilities to them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"6ibqGXIl3M\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-june-2025\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 June 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 June 2025&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-june-2025\/embed\/#?secret=wMOBzbYPDI#?secret=6ibqGXIl3M\" data-secret=\"6ibqGXIl3M\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tazeen Akhtar To the extreme astonishment of many in four countries Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria, about 40 thousand Pakistani pilgrims are missing in the other three countries while the govs of all have no idea where they are or where they went? Arab media is highlighting the matter and raising questions on the system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[5443,143,197,440,251,937,48,5279,426,5665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49149,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49145\/revisions\/49149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}