Mecca, also spelled Makkah, is a city in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia. 70 km inland from Jeddah, in a narrow valley 277 m above sea level, 340 kilometres south of Medina, its population in 2012 was 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the Ḥajj, held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhūl-Ḥijjah. Read More
After witnessing deterioration in ties between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia for months, Islamabad on Monday made an attempt to mend its relationship with the Kingdom. ...
Amid the ongoing strained relationship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has met Saudi Arabia's military chief of staff General Fayyad bin Hamid Al-Ruwaili to discuss the prospects for military cooperati ...
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The Afghan government has decided to build a civilian airport outside Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, a senior official of the country's Civil Aviation Qasim Wafizada said. ...