{"id":47360,"date":"2026-05-09T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47360"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:21:02","slug":"hajj-pilgrims-departing-for-macca-bid-farewell-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/hajj-pilgrims-departing-for-macca-bid-farewell-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Hajj pilgrims departing for Macca bid farewell today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 9: Prime Minister Balendra Shah&#8217;s political advisor Asim Shah and Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nepal, Fahad Mohammed Azmi Mnikhr, today bade farewell to the group of Nepali Hajj pilgrims departing for the sacred Macca.<\/p>\n<p>At the farewell programme, they expressed the belief that the religious, cultural, and mutual relations between Nepal and Saudi Arabia would be further strengthened while extending best wishes for a successful, safe, and prosperous journey to all Nepali Muslim pilgrims participating in the Hajj.<\/p>\n<p>They also noted that Hajj is a symbol of important religious faith, discipline, and spiritual unity for Muslims, and drew the attention of the concerned authorities for the smooth management, safety, and necessary cooperation for the pilgrims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 9: Prime Minister Balendra Shah&#8217;s political advisor Asim Shah and Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nepal, Fahad Mohammed Azmi Mnikhr, today bade farewell to the group of Nepali Hajj pilgrims departing for the sacred Macca. At the farewell programme, they expressed the belief that the religious, cultural, and mutual relations between Nepal and Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47362,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47360\/revisions\/47362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}